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Dodgers Opening Day 2018: All the Speciality and Theme Nights for the Upcoming Season
Local Southern California sports teams will have their own night as well as the Dodgers will host LA Kings Night, Clippers Night, Lakers Night, USC, UCLA, Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Northridge Night. --NBC 4
How smartglasses help the blind see; conference spotlights assistive technologies
Erin is an agent for Aira (pronounced eye-ra,) a local start-up exhibiting at the 33rd annual Cal State University Northridge (CSUN) Assistive Technology Conference here last week. --San Diego Union Tribune
How submarine groundwater affects coral reef growth
"While the current study found that corals grow faster when exposed to low levels of SGD nutrient enrichment, coral cover remains extremely low on the Maunalua Bay reef flats," said Nyssa Silbiger, study co-author and assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. "Our next studies will focus on how SGD and herbivory from fishes impact coral-algal competition, coral recruitment rates, and bioerosion rates." --Science Daily
CSUN Professor Part of International Team Researching Neandertal History
More than 100 years after archaeologists discovered the remains of Neandertals in caves in Belgium, California State University, Northridge associate anthropology professor Hélène Rougier re-examined the debris from those remains, and her findings are helping to shed light on the history of Neandertals living in Eurasia 39,000 to 47,000 years ago.--SCV News
New research shows how submarine groundwater affects coral reef growth
"While the current study found that corals grow faster when exposed to low levels of SGD nutrient enrichment, coral cover remains extremely low on the Maunalua Bay reef flats," said Nyssa Silbiger, study co-author and assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. "Our next studies will focus on how SGD and herbivory from fishes impact coral-algal competition, coral recruitment rates, and bioerosion rates." --Innovations Report
How Submarine Groundwater Affects Coral Reef Growth [STUDY]
“While the current study found that corals grow faster when exposed to low levels of SGD nutrient enrichment, coral cover remains extremely low on the Maunalua Bay reef flats,” said Nyssa Silbiger, study co-author and assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. “Our next studies will focus on how SGD and herbivory from fishes impact coral-algal competition, coral recruitment rates, and bioerosion rates.” --VALUEWALK
Under Pressure, Helium Stops Being a Bystander
Still, while scientists had experimentally created a stable helium compound, much remained unknown about how it could form, given helium's inertness, said study co-author Maosheng Miao, a chemist at California State University, Northridge. Now Miao and his colleagues believe they have found the explanation, and suggest that many other helium compounds are possible as well, findings they detailed online March 5 in the journal Nature Communications. --Inside Science
Dennis Zine dropped out of Valley Assembly race. Or did he?
In a district where Democrats outnumbered Republicans 49 percent to 22 percent in January voter registration figures, Clark could benefit from being the only Republican and qualify for the runoff. This, despite the fact that Clark is, as his campaign website says, “an 18-year-old college student currently attending California State University Northridge while also working at a local ice cream shop.” --LA Daily News
The Soraya Presents Evenings to Celebrate Legendary Broadway Composer Richard Rodgers
The Soraya opened its 2017-2018 season on September 16 with a performance of AMADEUS Live (Milos Foreman’s 1984 Academy Award-winning Best Picture with live orchestra) with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and members of the LA Opera Chorus. The evening honored the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Foundation in recognition of the family’s recent $17 million gift that will rename VPAC as the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Performing Arts Center, known as The Soraya. The gift is one of the largest in the history of the California State University and the system’s largest single gift to support the arts; gift to support the programming and operations of the award-winning Valley Performing Arts Center – which has become one of the cultural jewels of the region in the six years since it opened. --NoHo Arts District
Digital 40 Over 40 2018: Ricardo Diaz, executive director of digital, Omelet
Diaz lives and breathes digital, with even his extracurriculars tying into his tech and data obsession. He lends his time to both Hollywood Hack Day as a hackathon/startup mentor, and is a mentor and teacher at California State University, Northridge where he fosters the digital minds of the future. --Campaign US