![Silvia Chiave with PDC students and community members](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_silvia_chiave_sito_05Nov2021.png.webp?itok=xFlNUEra)
Silvia Chiave, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles, visited the Palm Desert Campus to discuss her life and career, her current role as Consul General, and provide perspectives about tourism in Italy and her time as a former sommelier.
![Faculty in the News, Visual Arts sculpture](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Faculty-in-the-News-Art_3.jpg.webp?itok=AEoWlUtT)
Todd Johnson (music), Diane Vines (nursing), Kate Liszka (history), Breena Coates (management) and Vipin Gupta (management) were included in recent news coverage.
![The communication studies students from CSUSB and seniors from the university discussing how different and alike the two generations actually are](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_IntergenerationalForum_12Oct2021.jpg.webp?itok=NI6Y-azW)
The event is part of a special studies internship project for CSUSB undergraduate students Ruby Ramos of Fontana, Ana Gonzales-Munoz of Cathedral City and Carolina De La Herran of Indio.
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Five members of the Cal State San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus orientation team will speak at the 2021 NODA Annual Conference about the PDC Pack Prep program they developed for incoming students.
![Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students from Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus were celebrated at the annual Rogers Scholarship](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/PDC_Rogers%20Scholarship%20Reception%202021%20uncropped.jpg.webp?itok=-naAcM_j)
The Mary Stuart Rogers Scholarship Fund was established to provide financial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus.
![Faculty in the News, CNS building](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Faculty-in-the-News-CNS.jpg.webp?itok=H-gQO4mv)
Kate Liszka (history) shared some of the details on the new Certificate in Egyptology program, Diane Vines (nursing) has been invited to present at virtual two conferences, and Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote on “Breaking Addiction to Heal True Connections.”
![Diane Vines](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_VinesSpeaking_04Oct2021.jpg.webp?itok=FO7OoPbn)
Diane Vines will speak at the Association of Psychiatric Nurses Annual Conference on Oct. 15, and at the 17th Annual International Street Medicine Symposium on Oct. 21.
![Faculty in the News, Coussoulis Arena](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Faculty-in-the-News-Arena.jpg.webp?itok=lpG4F6lt)
Pablo Gomez (psychology) was interviewed by KESQ TV about his first full year teaching at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, and a segment on KVCR about “The Bridges that Carried Us Over” oral history project mentioned the involvement of Marc Robinson (history).
![Faculty in the News, CSBS building](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Faculty-in-the-News-SBS_1.jpg.webp?itok=QYVmYs5A)
Pablo Gomez (psychology) the first full-time faculty member hired at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, talks about his first full year with the university teaching during the pandemic, and an earlier interview with Brian Levin (criminal justice) was cited in an article about an educator accused of a hate crime