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CSUN’s Martin Pousson Wins PEN’s Literary Award For Fiction
A 'fabulist' coming-of-age novel about a queer mixed-race boy in the bayous of Louisiana, written by California State University, Northridge English professor Martin Pousson, has won the 2017 PEN Center USA Fiction Award. -- Public Now
ASME Awards Nearly 70 Scholarships to Student Members
Danielle Petterson, from the University of South Florida, was one of two winners of the ASME/ Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Scholarships. Petterson won the undergraduate award, while Erin Hong of California State University, Northridge, received the post-graduate ASME/SHPE Scholarship. The program, now in its third year, provides two $5,000 awards each year to students who are members of both ASME and SHPE and have been actively involved in volunteer work to benefit others through at least one of the societies. -- ASME
Explorers Club Honors CSUNs' First Sound Art Exhibition
California State University, Northridge art history professor and archeologist Owen Doonan was honored earlier this year by the Explorers Club - an international multidisciplinary professional society that helps advance field research and preserve exploration for his international excavations in Turkey and a related exhibition, “Stone Sounds: Echoes from 4000 Years at Sinop Kale.” -- AmericanTowns.com
CSUN Raises the Curtain on The Soraya
On Sept. 16, 2017, CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison (left), other university leaders and hundreds of guests celebrated with Younes (seated) and Soraya Nazarian (right) and their extended family. The festivities celebrated the renaming of the university’s performing arts jewel to the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, in recognition of a gift from the Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation. -- Press Release Point
LA's Agenda: The Events You Can not Miss
The National Autonomous University of Mexico, at its headquarters in Los Angeles (634 S. Spring St., Ste 100, Los Angeles), presents A Hundred Years of Solitude: A Half Century of Readings, a round table with experts in Hispanic American literature , among them Nicolás Pernett, of the Institute Caro and Cuervo, of Colombia; Maarten van Delden of UCLA; Svetlana Tyutina, CSUN; Catalina Rey, of the University of Guadalajara Foundation USA; Jorge Muñoz, UNAM, and Eduardo Casar, National University 2015 Award, UNAM. Free entrance. At 6:30 p.m. -- La Opinion (in Spanish)
Long Beach State men’s water polo finishes tournament schedule
On Saturday night, LBSU travels to Cal State Northridge. The 49ers lead the all-time series with CSUN 53-23, and have won the last six meetings. The Matadors haven’t beaten LBSU since 2013. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES TO BEGIN 31ST SEASON
Poghosyan’s musical studies began in her native Yerevan in Armenia at the School of the Arts No. 1, continuing at Romanos Melikian College and the Komitas State Conservatory. Her teachers in Armenia included Irina Gazarian, Vatche Umr-Shat, and Svetlana Dadyan. After moving to the United States in 1998, she received her BM, summa cum laude, from California State University in Northridge under Françoise Regnat, and her MM and D.M.A. degrees at Manhattan School of Music under Arkady Aronov, completing her D.M.A. in a record-breaking two years with a thesis on Aram Khachaturian’s works for piano. -- Hudson Valley Times - NY
Consistency vs. Ethnic Studies
California State University, Northridge, prided itself on an extra general-education requirement centering on comparative cultural studies, but the Cal State system wants uniformity across campuses. -- Inside Higher Ed
CSUN's Martin Pousson wins PEN Literary Award for Fiction
EW can also exclusively report the winners of the 2017 PEN Center Literary Awards, listed below.
Fiction: Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy -- Entertainment Weekly
CSU faculty rebels against changes in remedial and math education, calls for delay
In an interview, Stepanek, who is a computer science professor at Cal State Northridge, said that some other trustees agree that such dramatic changes should not be rushed. White was trying to get “too much done in a very small time period,” he told EdSource. And he added that a formal trustees’ vote might not be needed to slow things down. -- EdSource