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Cal State San Bernardino professor participates in Black Male Educators Talk program
The Sun
Aug. 2, 2024

Marc A. Robinson, an assistant professor of history at Cal State San Bernardino, was one of the participants in a recent professional development retreat for Black male educators held in Atlanta. The retreat, held July 11-14 on the campus of Atlanta Metropolitan State College, was organized and led by Black Male Educators Talk (BMEsTalk) and offered personal and professional development created by and for Black male professionals.

CSUSB’s Sirotnik named outstanding educator
IE Business Daily
Aug. 4, 2024

Barbara Sirotnik, a professor in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at Cal State San Bernardino, has been named 2024 Outstanding Educator by the inland chapter of the American Society of Public Administration. The award, which Sirotnik received at the society’s recent scholarship luncheon, “recognizes those making an enduringly impactful contribution to education in the Inland Empire.”

CSUSB professor discusses the auctioning of dinosaur fossils and how that may prevent research by public institution
The Hustle
Aug. 2, 2024

Stuart Sumida, CSUSB professor of biology and vice-president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, was interviewed for an article about the auctioning of dinosaur fossils to the highest (private) bidder and how that potentially prevents public institutions access to the specimens for research.

For Sumida, the latest auction involving a stegosaurus skeleton named Apex represents an opportunity lost.

 “You don’t study a specimen that’s already been plastered together,” he says. “You study the parts, sometimes at the microscopic level.”

Sumida and the SVP have lobbied for years for stronger regulations against commercial fossil hunting and selling. Scientific journals won’t publish papers on fossils sold on the private market, because other scientists can’t vet the data. The U.S. is one of the only countries in the world that allows international export of fossils, opening them up to collectors across the world.

And while the commercialization of fossils gets likened to the art market, there's a critical difference: humans didn’t make them.

“You would never sell a coastal redwood tree,” he says.

JD Vance endorsed a book calling far-left 'unhumans,' and praising fascist dictators
Detroit Free Press
Aug. 8, 2024

Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article about GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance endorsing new book by a far-right conspiracy theorist that praises fascist dictators for violently suppressing leftists − or, as the book calls them, "unhumans."

“This book is a homily and apologia that spans centuries of revisionism on murderous dictators and insurrectionists and it's co-authored by someone who lauds far-right extremists and bigots in the United States,” said Levin.

Levin, a lawyer and former police officer who has monitored political violence for decades, said the book, by conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, and its strategies for “crushing” unhumans is especially dangerous in the current superheated political environment because it "amplifies and directs aggression" toward progressives.

Taylor Swift concerts canceled after 2 arrested over suspected attack plot
KTLA TV
Aug. 7, 2024

Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for a segment about the arrest of two people who allegedly plotted an attack in Vienna, Austria, where the pop singer had scheduled three concerts. Authorities said one of the suspects, a 19-year-old, had pledged an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The Inland Empire strikes back against hate
Westside Story
Aug. 1, 2024

On July 16, Zócalo Public Square and the University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences hosted a panel titled “How Does the Inland Empire Strike Back Against Hate?”

Moderated by professor emeritus of Cal State San Bernardino’s School of Criminal Justice,  Brian Levin, the conversation centered on the Inland Empire’s history with hate crime as well as the current state of hate in the region.

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