Two graduate students from California State University, Dominguez Hills were winners at the 22nd annual system-wide CSU Student Research Competition held this month at CSU East Bay. Giancarlo Bonora was named outstanding presenter in the biology-graduate division’s first session for his presentation of a study that could have implications in the fight against breast cancer and Chaka Dodson was named runner-up in her session in the graduate-psychology division for research she did on neuro-cognitive dysfunction in HIV-positive men.

At WestMUN (Western Collegiate Model United Nations) XVI in Santa Barbara in April, political science students from California State University, Dominguez Hills received two of the top awards, the most given to a university at the conference. Thirteen schools from across the western United States took part in the conference, at which students acting as delegates for various countries researched, debated and negotiated issues currently before the United Nations.