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The federal funding for the MSPA program is part of the federal fiscal year 2023 appropriations package and will be designated to purchase teaching and lab equipment.
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This special ceremony welcomes newly graduated nurses into the nursing workforce to serve the public.
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The CSUSB MSPA program expects to begin recruiting for faculty and staff positions starting in January 2023 and matriculating its first class of 40 students in August 2025.
![Michael Nguyen, a former faculty member in the Department of Health Science and Human Ecology, rings the bell at the Peace Garden on the Day of Remembrance, Dec. 2.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_DayofRembrance_05dec2022.jpg.webp?itok=Mg8RzK6T)
The annual Day of Remembrance memorial honored the 14 people, including the five College of Natural Science alumni, who were among the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health employees killed on Dec. 2, 2015.
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William Van Dyke (lecturer, health science and human ecology) spoke at the university’s Day of Remembrance on Dec. 2, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was mentioned in recent news coverage on extremism.
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The Day of Remembrance to honor the memory of 14 individuals, including five CSUSB College of Natural Sciences alumni, killed in 2015 during a mass shooting, will be held at 3 p.m. at the university’s Peace Garden, next to the Chemical Sciences Building.
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The goal is to support student success and retention by developing institutional culture and infrastructure at CSUSB to support language-based challenges to STEM students including multilingual English learner students.
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Famed statistician Ronald Wasserstein will give two Oct. 18 talks on the science behind big jackpots and the controversy of statistical significance when he presents “What Probability and Forrest Gump Teach Us About the California Lottery” and “Moving to a World Beyond.”
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Robert Santos, who has led the U.S. Census Bureau since 2021, will talk about his experiences growing up in the barrios of San Antonio, Texas, to becoming the bureau’s first Latino director.