“Under Armour Faculty” Support Student-Athletes With Outside Perspectives
When Ed Jackiewicz met Tera Trujillo in spring 2015, she was studying at a desk she’d carried to the corner of the California State University, Northridge soccer field, in a “time out” of sorts,...
View ArticleCSUN Makes Top 10 in North American Sustainable Campus Index
CSUN students and staff plant trees in the Sierra Quad, during the annual Earth Fair in April 2017. California State University, Northridge has earned another stellar ranking from the nation’s largest...
View ArticleCSUN Prof Becomes Forensic Ecologist to Assess Reef Damage Left By Hurricanes
Less than 20 feet underwater, California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds could see the damage two back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes — Irma and Maria — had inflicted on the...
View ArticleCSUN Alum Named SoCal Journalist of the Year
It was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The first of two planes had just crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Ringo Chiu ’01 (Special Major) was sitting in a photography class at...
View ArticleFaculty and Staff Awards for December 2017
Each month, California State University, Northridge faculty and staff receive funding from outside organizations to support unique programs and cutting-edge research facilitated on campus. Below are a...
View ArticleCSUN Astronomy Prof and NASA Colleagues Show Disk Patterns in Space Can Form...
A team of NASA scientists that includes CSUN astronomy professor Wladimir Lyra, has discovered evidence that disk patterns, often indicators of the formation of new planets, can form on their own....
View ArticleCSUN Hand Cycling Clinics Help Veterans, Other Community Members Stay Fit
Nearly five years ago, a motorcycle accident left Jeff Hider with no movement from about his hips down. He thought he would never be able to ride a bike or a motorcycle again. Following the accident,...
View ArticleSense of Belonging for Faculty Success is Emphasized at Faculty Retreat
The world of higher education is changing rapidly. Faculty members face increased pressure and accountability for student learning and to be more responsive to student needs and challenges, California...
View ArticleCSUN Fostering Culture of Innovation
Students, faculty and staff across California State University, Northridge are taking part in a host of trailblazing programs, initiatives and competitions. From cutting-edge research labs to...
View ArticleOviatt Library Hosts Fourth Annual Open Access Symposium
Open science is a movement to make all scientific research, data and dissemination accessible online to all levels of an inquiring society, including amateurs and professionals. The open science and...
View ArticleSteven J. Ross Tells Chilling Story of Nazis’ Rise to Power in LA
In the 1930s, Nazis held a series of meetings to formulate a plan to blow up the homes of more than 20 prominent Jewish figures and actors in Los Angeles, including Charlie Chaplin. A man named Leon...
View ArticleCSUN Professors Test Behaviors in Current Fire Prevention and Safety Methods
From childhood to adulthood, the average person recalls the most common fire safety training they receive: Stop, Drop and Roll. However, it isn’t often that anyone looks at the effectiveness of such...
View ArticleCSUN Alumna Nominated for Global Teacher Prize
When staff at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica see the yellow school bus pull up in front of their theater, they know exactly who will be getting out of it: Hawthorne High School theater students. They...
View ArticleFaculty and Staff Awards for January 2018
Each month, California State University, Northridge faculty and staff receive funding from outside organizations to support unique programs and cutting-edge research facilitated on campus. Below are a...
View ArticleThird Annual Black Youth Guidance Forum Promotes Healthy Habits and Literacy
To empower black youth, organizers of California State University, Northridge’s Black Youth Guidance Forum provided students, parents, educators and advocates with free information about pursuing...
View ArticleCSUN Alumna Wins Prestigious Young Entrepreneur Award
At 24, Tracie Karasik had just landed a job as an account services representative for a media company. Just one day in, she had a realization. “I was only there for one day, but it was like I had an...
View ArticleCSUN Professor Advances Bee Research With Hives on Campus
Throughout the world, bee colonies have been devastated by a parasite called the Varroa mite. These mites – which are visible to the naked eye – leach on to bees, and have devastated honeybees since...
View ArticleCSUN Professor’s Website Offers Thoughtful Pause to Today’s Vitriolic...
Conversations about such issues as violence, guns, climate change, ethical behavior, fake news and social media seem to be getting louder and more vitriolic, with people more entrenched in their silos...
View ArticleCSUN Graduate Student Awarded 2018 Newman Civic Fellowship
Lilia Gonzalez Campus Compact — a Boston based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education — has announced the 268 students who will make up the 2018 cohort of...
View ArticleCSUN’s Sundial Completely Digitized
California State University, Northridge’s Sundial has been a part of the campus since it was known as San Fernando Valley State College. When the first issue was published in the spring of 1957, the...
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