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Thirty-One California Colleges Receive Black-Serving Institution Designation
At CSU Northridge, administrators point to expanded initiatives like the Black Matador Excellence Experience summer bridge program and a revamped first-year course built around the Black student experience. William Watkins, EdD, the university’s vice president of student affairs, said the recognition reflects years of groundwork, not a sudden shift. -- Insight Into Academia
htt Monks & Merrill Subscription Dependence, Vintage Clutter, Identification Requested and Read Before Signing
Younger consumers are discovering something many of us already have in storage: records, CDs, tapes, and DVDs. CSUN communication studies professor Peter Marston sees nostalgia and a desire for ownership, though growing sales alone cannot tell us how widespread those motivations are. -- KFI
CSUN’s Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub Launches ‘Culture is Currency’ Challenge
Sometimes, a successful future lies not in a high school robotics competition or a college hackathon, but rather in the knowledge passed down from grandparent to child to grandchild. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Oct. 9: CSUN’s Fall Salon Series to Feature Conversation with Tiffany Haddish
Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian, actor, author, producer and philanthropist Tiffany Haddish is the featured speaker at this semester’s “Salon Series” hosted by California State University, Northridge’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. -- SCV News
Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Oct. 1-9
The Soraya: Snarky Puppy, with special guest Varijashree Venugopal, 8 p.m. Oct. 3. Tickets $49 and up; check for availability. Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts on the California State University, Northridge campus, 18111 Nordhoff St. 818-677-8800. facebook.com/TheSorayaStage. thesoraya.org. thesoraya.org/whats-on/en/snarky-puppy/ -- Los Angeles Daily News
Researchers Map Route to Stable Quantum States of Matter
Researchers from Harbin Normal University, Great Bay University, and California State University Northridge have computationally discovered a potentially valuable material state known as a non-Abelian chiral spin liquid (CSL). These unusual states could host particles behaving like qubits, the fundamental building blocks for more stable quantum computers; unlike conventional bits which are either zero or one, these quasiparticles exhibit exotic behaviours enabling complex calculations. -- Quantum Zeitgeist
Affordable housing coming to 18444 Plummer St. in Northridge
The six-story building would replace a shuttered Rite Aid near CSUN -- Urbanize Los Angeles
CSUN professor earns NASA grants to study how leafy greens thrive, microbes survive in space
A Cal State Northridge biology professor has received two NASA grants totaling $700,000 to study growing leafy greens in space and how a salt-tolerant microbe survives hostile environments, the university announced this week. -- Los Angeles Daily News
PBS SoCal Announces Fine Cut Student Filmmaker Winners From USC, CSUN, California College of the Arts
Student filmmakers from USC, California College of the Arts and Cal State Northridge were the top winners at PBS SoCal‘s 27th annual Fine Cut Festival of Films. The winners, revealed during a screening and awards ceremony on Tuesday at Eagle Rock’s Vidiots (inside its Eagle Theater), shared prize packages valued at more than $55,000. -- Variety
Labor Unions Lend Support to Paramount - Warner Bros. Settlement
“This does have some real teeth,” said Todd Holmes, an entertainment management professor at California State University, Northridge. “In terms of collective bargaining, I think it would be difficult to match that.” -- Bloomberg Law