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CSUN Prof Part of Effort to Combat Misconceptions About the Humanities
Declaring a major in the humanities — whether philosophy, English, a classical language or cultural studies — often elicits a skeptically raised eyebrow from friends and loved ones, and the suggestion that the only career you’ll be prepared for is as a barista at the local coffee shop. -- Press Release Point
NIFA Funds Food Safety And Nutrition To Promote Safe Food Supply
AFRI Foundational Program: Improving Food Safety
University of California, Davis, California, $495,482
University of California, Davis, California, $499,893
California State University, Northridge, California, $150,000 -- ScienMag
Kaiser Permanente Awards CSUN $60,000 to Promote Healthy Eating in Canoga Park Program Focuses on Educating Parents and Caregivers
California State University, Northridge’s Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC) and the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing (ICHW) were awarded a $60,000 Community Benefit grant by the Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center. The money is being used to promote wholesome eating and improve health in Canoga Park. -- Press Release Point
Things to do in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys, Dec. 1-8
Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge: Eliot Fisk, 8 p.m. Wednesday ($53); Michael Feinstein: Holiday Celebration, 8 p.m. Dec. 8 ($38 and up); Colburn Orchestra, 3 p.m. Dec. 10 (check website for tickets); the Klezmatics, 8 p.m. Dec. 16 ($33 and up). Tickets have added fees. 18111 Nordhoff St. 818-677-3000. www.valleyperformingartscenter.org -- Los Angeles Daily News
CSUN Prof Part of Effort to Combat Misconceptions About the Humanities
Declaring a major in the humanities — whether philosophy, English, a classical language or cultural studies — often elicits a skeptically raised eyebrow from friends and loved ones, and the suggestion that the only career you’ll be prepared for is as a barista at the local coffee shop. -- AmericanTowns.com
The Klezmatics Bring A Happy Joyous Hanukkah to VPAC
Valley Performing Arts Center (The Soraya) welcome The Klezmatics on Saturday, December 16 at 8:00pm as they celebrate Yiddish culture at this time of year when candles and family warm the dark nights. As outspoken human rights advocates, their Hanukkah celebration embraces audiences of all cultures and backgrounds as they explore Hanukkah lyrics by Woody Guthrie, father of American Folk Music. -- Broadway World Los Angeles
CSUNs' Innovative and Entrepreneurial Program Promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
California State University, Northridge’s new entrepreneurial program, Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site Program helps students undertake the challenge of customer discovery, a process that incorporates customers early in a business development process. -- AmericanTowns.com
CSUN Professor Uses Traditional Foods to Spread Cultural Insight in STEM
The smell of fresh food wafts through the air as students in an introductory-science course quietly read through the day’s lesson. Delicately cut squares of a potato-meat dish, the day’s entree, are carefully delivered to each student’s desk. -- AmericanTowns.com
Prickly Academic Test at Cal State By Thomas D. Elias
But some Cal State professors and students demur. “The faculty are justifiably suspicious,” Katherine Stevenson, who heads the developmental math program at Cal State Northridge, told the system’s board of trustees the other day. The CSU Academic Senate warned of “rushed and poorly designed implementation.” -- The Front Page online
Porter Ranch Bringing the Holiday Spirit in 2017
The Valley Performing Arts Theater on the campus of California State University-Northridge will have its "Michael Feinstein Holiday Celebration" concert on Dec. 8. Photos with Santa and your pet are available at the Northridge Fashion Center through Dec. 11, and with everyone else through Dec. 24. The Valley Philharmonic Orchestra will host their 2017 Winter Concert at 7 p.m. Dec. 17 at In-Christ Community Church, 19514 Rinaldi St., Northridge. -- Mama Loves Media