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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
Petersen's Popular Lowrider Exhibition Bumps Up the Volume
“They wanted to have a good mix of different colors, as well as different models of lowriders and styles,” said Sandoval, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge. -- LA Weekly
Jewish Women's Theatre to Host Author Talk on 'Sephardic Women's Voices'
Maureen Rubin, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at California State University, Northridge and a JWT Advisory Board Member will moderate the event, which will include excerpt readings and lively conversation. --Broadway World
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
CSUN Transportation Town Hall Addresses Traffic, Parking Plans
California State University, Northridge and the surrounding community share the challenges of parking and traffic congestion associated with CSUN’s nearly 50,000 students, faculty and staff. --SCV News
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
AUTHOR TO SPEAK ON SEPHARDIC WOMEN’S VOICES AT JEWISH WOMEN’S THEATRE (JWT) IN SANTA MONICA ON JANUARY 9
Maureen Rubin, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at California State University, Northridge and a JWT Advisory Board Member will moderate the event, which will include excerpt readings and lively conversation. --Santa Monica Mirror
Family offers reward for missing daughter
Park was supposed to start taking classes at Pierce College and had previously attended Cal State Northridge. --The Acorn
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