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Data Prompts One CSUN Department to Change the Way It Serves Its Students

How do we close the graduation gap? How do we ensure students have the resources they need to succeed academically? Those are questions people in higher education — including at California State University, Northridge — have been grappling with for decades. --The San Fernando Valley Sun

Scientists Examine Hurricane Damage to Caribbean Coral Reefs

Coral reefs off St. John, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, suffered severe injury during the storms, say scientists from the University at Buffalo and California State University, Northridge who traveled there in late November to assess the damage—the first step in understanding the reefs’ recovery. --The Daily Catch

NASA’s Year In Review For 2017, Groundbreaking Discoveries and Record-Setting Exploration

CSUNSat1, designed by California State University, Northridge in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was awarded Smallsat Technology Partnership funding in 2013. The 2U CubeSat deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017 and successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of JPL’s energy storage system that is targeted to help small spacecraft explore deep space in extremely cold temperatures. -- Space Coast Daily

Black Mexico: Colonial Los Angeles

The team also included David Almada, a Los Angeles Unified School District administrator serving at a time when few Latinos served in such positions; and historian Leonard Pitt, an emeritus professor of history at California State University, Northridge and author of Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Pitt died in July 2015 at 85. --Compton Herald

Caribbean Coral reefs damaged by hurricanes ‘Natural Experiment’ of recovering from disaster

Researchers from University of Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) and California State University, Northridge (CSUN), traveled to St. John, part of the United States Virgin Islands, in November to study the reefs there. Assessing the damage suffered by the corals under the impact of hurricanes Maria and Irma was the first step toward understanding their recovery. --Cayman iNews

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