![Palm Springs High School students](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDCAlumnaDonnaGerrell_262022.jpg.webp?itok=NM1k5MNN)
Donnie Gerrell ’18 credits the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus for providing her with the necessary skills to be successful.
![Four CSUSB Palm Desert Campus nursing students (in the blue tops) provide flu shots at a drive-thru flu shot clinic at the North Shore Beach and Yacht Club at the Salton Sea.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_PDC_StreetMedicine_Flushots_30Nov2020.jpg.webp?itok=B2JLMG5N)
The four nursing students are participants in the Street Medicine program that assists the homeless and unsheltered in the Coachella Valley.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_Fall2020_12.jpg.webp?itok=xGArWeZM)
Diane Vines (nursing) discussed a grant received by the Street Medicine program at CSUSB’s Palm Desert Campus, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) appeared on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” to discuss the latest FBI hate crime report.
![Faculty in the News](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_FacultyInTheNews_Fall2020_9.jpg.webp?itok=d5ZxUqvx)
Meredith Conroy (political science), Nancy Acevedo (education), Diane Vines (nursing) and Brian Levin (criminal justice) were included in recent news coverage.
![Street Medicine program nursing students work in the field. The $50,000 grant will be used to improve access to healthcare for traditionally underserved populations, increase mobile medical clinics, improve health-related infrastructure in the Coachella Valley and strengthen engagement of nurses and nursing students with the homeless.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/PDC_Street%20Medicine%203.jpg.webp?itok=z3C-3AO1)
The Street Medicine program is a collaborative partnership between the CSUSB Department of Nursing at the Palm Desert Campus; the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine; Desert Regional Medical Center; Well in the Desert; and the Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine.