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To change faculty demographics, experts say start with graduate students. That’s the focus of a five-year nationwide pilot program, Pathways to the Professoriate, that matches undergraduates from three universities where more than a quarter of students are Latino—California State University, Northridge, the University of Texas at El Paso and Florida International University—with mentors at five major research universities, including UC Davis and UC Berkeley. -- CALMatters

From 1999 to 2000, Cal State Northridge graduate student Sandy Ng monitored the same culvert that P-64 used and recorded no bobcats, coyotes, deer or mountain lions using the underpass. The only animals detected during the monitoring period were raccoons, skunks and an opossum. -- Thousand Oaks Acorn

Emcee Edward Arguelles, a retired history and government teacher, explained that the number of candles reflected the latest research by archaeologist Ann Stansell, whose 2014 study as a graduate student at California State University, Northridge provided the first comprehensive understanding of who the dam victims were. It was the most significant “fresh” research into the disaster since engineering professor J. David Rogers’ work two decades earlier to explain exactly why the dam broke. -- SCV News

Academy Award-nominee, Angela Bassett will join Kathleen Battle as a guest narrator in Battle's program Underground Railroad: A Spiritual Journey accompanied by pianist Joel Martin and the LA-based choir, The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya) on Thursday, March 29 at 8:00pm. -- Broadway World Los Angeles