![From left, Manijeh Badiee, recipient of the 2023-24 Golden Apple Award, and CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/2024/24_7235%20-%20Golden%20Apple%202024_Homepage%20Banner_v1.jpg.webp?itok=JzIGuAVt)
“I’m overwhelmed and humbled,” said Manijeh Badiee, professor of psychology. “This is the one award that means so much to me. I love teaching. I love our students. They’re why I do what I do.”
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Manijeh Badiee (psychology) was part of a group of researchers that published a study that “explored the experiences of Iranian adult children of divorce (ACOD) in the US,” and Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) was quoted in an article on a “Zoombombing” of a Laguna Beach City Council meeting where speakers unleashed antisemitic, racist and transphobic comments.
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Manijeh Badiee (psychology) and Yawen Li (social work) each published papers on their research.
![Black Trans Lives Matter sign at the May Day 2017 in New York City. The eighth program in the university’s Conversations on Race and Policing series will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday on Zoom. Photo by Alec Perkins via Wikimedia Commons.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Library_Hist_RaceAndPolicing_No8_20July2020.jpg.webp?itok=hRyk-Dng)
The panelists in the next conversation in the series, to be livestreamed on Zoom, will discuss issues related to policing, racial violence and the LGBTQIA community.
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State Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) served as the keynote speaker at CSUSB’s 2020 Womxn’s Leadership Conference on May 22, where she offered words of encouragement, advice and personal anecdotes.
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The conference, with the theme “The Future is Female: 100 Years of Voices,” will be held virtually Friday, May 22, and will feature a keynote from Senator Leyva, panel discussion and breakout sessions.
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The program, which began in the 2016-17 academic year, was created to build a stronger community between faculty and students.