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UPDATED FEBRUARY 2, 2022. With the most recent data showing that the Omicron spike has slowed, we are anticipating our return to on-campus learning on Monday, February 14. All eligible students and non-represented employees are expected to provide proof of a booster shot by February 4, 2022, or upon becoming eligible according to CDC guidelines. Booster self-certification can now be uploaded. Students. Employees.

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CSUN Model UN Team Sweeps Competitions in New York, D.C. and Seattle

Coming off a first-place winning streak at competitions in New York and Washington, D.C., earlier in 2021, the CSUN Model United Nations team continues to accumulate achievements after scoring another Outstanding Delegation Award (first place) in the Northwest Model UN Conference, which took place Nov. 19-21 in Seattle. Earlier that month, the CSUN team won Outstanding Delegation at the Washington Conference in D.C. Continue reading about how CSUN Model UN Team Sweeps Competitions.

Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM Awarded $150k Grant

The Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS) at California State University, Northridge recently was awarded a $150,000 one-year planning grant from the National Science Foundation’s Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program. The grant was awarded to support Workers and Technology Together (WATT), a CSUN and NASA research project focusing on the waste management industry. Continue reading about how Autonomy Research Center is Awarded $150k Grant.

Well-Being, Mental Health and Healing: Resources for CSUN Community to Process Pandemic’s Impact

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the pandemic, it’s that plans can change in an instant. In November, we could not have imagined that spring semester instruction would begin virtually, albeit only temporarily, as students and employees prepared for our return to campus life by practicing wearing real shoes and counting down the number of Zoom meetings left on the calendar. Continue reading about Resources for CSUN Community to Process Pandemic’s Impact.

Two CSUN Productions Win Honors from the National Opera Association

No detail was too small in the California State University, Northridge virtual productions of Maurice Ravel’s “L’enfant et les sortilèges” and Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi.” That attention to artistry despite the limitations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic earned the opera program in CSUN’s Department of Music two first-place honors in the National Opera Association’s “Opera Production Competition,” which is designed to “encourage and reward creative, high quality opera productions at academic institutions.” Continue reading about how two CSUN Productions Win Honors.

Artist Hopes Her Work Brings Awareness to Body Image Misconceptions

Multidisciplinary artist and CSUN alumna Kristine Schomaker ’03 (Art History), M.A. ’10 (Art Studio) has confronted her body image fears and self-worth head-on in the name of art. As a self-described plus-sized woman, Schomaker was always self-conscious about her body and weight. At a young age, she witnessed her family members struggle with these same insecurities; although, in her eyes, they didn’t appear to be overweight. Continue reading about how Artist Hopes Her Work Brings Awareness.

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