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ANCA Glendale Welcomes 2017 Summer Interns
Tatevik Mkrtchyan was born and raised in Armenia, where she graduated N 46 high school in Yerevan concentrating in humanitarian studies. She studied law at the French University in Armenia and is currently a junior at California State University, Northridge majoring in political science. She participated in the Armenian Republican Model UN Conference, and served as an intern at Legal Advisory Department of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, as well as ELL Partnership Law firm. Tatevik has volunteered for Armenian Red Cross society (Youth Department) and was involved in Smiley club program. In conjunction with obtaining experience in a relevant field and in-depth understanding of different aspects of governmental affairs, through this internship she hopes to contribute to the Armenian American community in Glendale. -- Asbarez
Sosé & Allen’s Legacy Foundation Continues Support for AYF Youth Corps
Among them are this year’s recipients of Sosé & Allen’s Legacy Foundation Fellowship supporting volunteerism in Armenia. Since 2014, the fellowship has supported those who want to make a change and bridge connections between the youth of Armenia and the diaspora. This year’s Fellowship recipients are Sose Kurdian, a history major at Cal State University, Northridge, Melody Nazarbegian, a biology major at UC San Diego, Sareen Ohannessian, studying environmental management and protection at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and Armine Kalbakian, an anthropology major at Cornell. -- Asbarez
Here’s what a $17 million gift means for CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center
NORTHRIDGE >> The Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge may soon change its name thanks to $17 million gift for long-term programming, university officials announced Tuesday. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN's Valley Performing Arts Center
In the 1940s, many years before he fled the Iranian Revolution and became a rich man in America, Younes Nazarian was a boy from the Jewish ghetto selling and replacing light bulbs in the alleys and bazaars of Tehran. He was slight and swift, climbing ladders and making change in a world at war. -- Los Angeles Times
CSUN concert hall renamed for Iran immigrants after $17M gift
The Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge will be renamed after philanthropists Younes and Soraya Nazarian to acknowledge a $17 million gift from their foundation, under action taken Tuesday by the California State University Board of Trustees. -- My News LA
Water, Native Plants, and Southern California's Long History of Unsustainable Gardening
A 1929 brochure of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, courtesy of the Oviatt Library, Cal State Northridge. -- KCET
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Have Long Resided on Ready-to-Eat Foods
Investigators from California State University - Northridge presented an abstract at the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2017 meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, showing that human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) through food sources is substantially higher than previously thought.1 -- Infectious Disease Advisor
SCV Boys & Girls Club appoints new CEO
He earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from San Francisco State University and is currently attending California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where he is working to earn his master’s degree in Public Administration: Non-Profit Sector Management. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
OPINION: Colleges are impelling the injustice of ‘social justice’
There are now more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities that offer majors, minors and advanced degrees in social justice, according to a recent analysis from The College Fix. Among these are at least 64 minor programs, 18 four-year degree programs, 15 master’s degrees and two doctorate programs. The list includes California schools like the University of San Francisco (minor in Jewish Studies and Social Justice), the University of Southern California (minor in Gender and Social Justice), Cal State Northridge (B.A. in Social Justice and Social Welfare) and Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara (doctoral concentration for Ph.D. or Ed.D. in Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice). -- Orange County Register
Immigrant CSUN students can soon get free legal aid thanks to 2 fellow Matadors
This fall, undocumented immigrant students at Cal State Northridge will be able to access free legal help through a law clinic that’s the brainchild of two CSUN students, one of them an undocumented immigrant herself. -- Los Angeles Daily News