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Johanna Smith: Finding the courage to demand delight
Academic Minute
Sept. 10, 2025
How can we bring joy into education? Johanna Smith, professor of theater education and entrepreneurship at California State University, San Bernardino, finds a way to incorporate it, and discusses it in this podcast.

Mounting journalist deaths In Gaza: 2 Prominent IE voices share views
City News Service via the Murrieta Patch
Sept. 8, 2025
Ahlam Muhtaseb (communication and media), who lectures on mass media at both the main campus and the Palm Desert Campus, was interviewed for an article about the growing number of journalists killed in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

From Classrooms to Communities: Impact Stories From Accredited Environmental Health Programs
Journal of Environmental Health
The environmental health science program at CSUSB, coordinated by Mahmood Nikbakhtzadeh (health science and human ecology),  was cited as an example in developing a skilled workforce, training and empowering its students to serve and lead in the environmental health field.

Retired CSUSB professor comments on takeaways from Trump’s federal law enforcement surge in DC 
The Associated Press
Sept. 10, 2025
Brian Levin, professor emeritus of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino, was interviewed for an article about the Trump administration’s deployment of federal law enforcement in Washington, D.C., to fight crime.

‘A Lovely Place of Refuge’: Interfaith justice forum tackles hate in California
Contra Costa Pulse
Sept. 10, 2025
Brian Levin, CSUSB professor emeritus, criminal justice, and now chair of the California Commission on the State of Hate, was quoted in an article about the commission’s recent event, “Virtual Community Forum on Dialogue Across Differences” held via Zoom on Sept. 5.

Empowering Students in Hospitality Education Using Attribution Theory
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education 
Michelle Russen (hospitality management/marketing) with external faculty from Washington State University, Johnson and Wales University, and New Mexico State University, published a study that explores how U.S. hospitality education can become more accessible to diverse learners and how it affects their motivation and engagement.

Review: ‘Indigenous Health and Justice’            
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
James Fenelon (sociology) published a review of “Indigenous Health and Justice,” which he called “a master work on Indigenous People's health justice — determinants, causal factors, systems, and access — along with a cogent, contemporary analysis of grounded examples arising from lifetimes of working in the field and with families, including the authors’ own experiences and tribal nations’ perspectives.”

Moral injury, PTSD, and intimate partner aggression: The roles of guilt-proneness and shame-proneness
Psychology of Violence
Rachel Kanter, a graduate student in psychology, and Christina Hassija, professor of psychology and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science, published a study that “explores how an individual's tendency to feel guilt and shame relate to aggressive behavior toward intimate partners, such as physical violence, psychological abuse, and sexual coercion.”

Brian Levin, professor emeritus, criminal justice, interviewed by several news media after fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk

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