Professor of teacher education Richard Gordon has collaborated with the Los Angeles Unified School District to groom ninth graders from Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles for college life. Beginning on Sept. 23 and ending today, JHS students, teachers, counselors and social workers have been visiting California State University, Dominguez Hills for workshops on topics including self-esteem, time management, conflict resolution and looking to the future.

Professor of physics Kenneth Ganezer has secured a research award from the National Science Foundation’s Particle Astrophysics Program. The $330,000 grant will be used to expand the participation of California State University, Dominguez Hills faculty and students in Super-Kamiokande, a nucleon decay and neutrino oscillation experiment that the university has been involved in since 1992, to include a new particle accelerator-based beam project to study neutrino mixing called T2K.