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  • Oviatt Library

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CSUN Professor Creates Free Online Course to Prepare High School Students for College Biology

Malone is currently working on enabling the course to give high school and transfer students CSUN life science general education credit. Students considering biology as a major can use the course to gain in-depth knowledge of their high school biology curriculum and it may help them decide if biology is the field they want to study in college, Malone said.--SCVNews.com

Futurists want to transform Black Mirror’s dystopia into something better

The project will be held at the virtual reality online media company Upload VR’s new UploadLA incubator and mixed reality studio. The effort is organized by L.A. futurist and artist Zenka. Participants from research facilities such as California State University Northridge and the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technology.--Venture Beat

CSUN Art Gallery Shares Students’ Creative Visions

The Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition will be on display from April 7-26 at California State University, Northridge's Art Galleries. The exhibition will showcase work from CSUN's undergraduate and graduate art students in the Main Gallery. --Public Now

Futurists want to transform Black Mirror’s dystopia into something better

The project will be held at the virtual reality online media company Upload VR’s new UploadLA incubator and mixed reality studio. The effort is organized by L.A. futurist and artist Zenka. Participants from research facilities such as California State University Northridge and the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technology. -- NewsDog

Streaking TCU baseball aims to keep first place in Big 12

CU also won 13 consecutive games in 2014, a stretch from April 15 to May 9 that included weekend sweeps of Texas, Cal State Northridge and Kansas State, single-game victories against Houston Baptist, Texas Tech, Stephen F. Austin and the first game of a series against Oklahoma.--Star-Telegram

Long Beach State Dirtbags settle in for win over CSUN

A wild third inning on Thursday at Blair Field between Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge decided the game, entertained the crowd with unorthodox plays and sent both head coaches to the showers early in a 6-2 Dirtbags win. It is the 10th consecutive win at home for the Dirtbags (21-11, 6-1) who are ranked as high as No. 12 by Baseball America. It is also LBSU’s seventh consecutive win, and 11 of last 13. The series continues 6 p.m. on Friday at Blair Field where the Dirtbags are 13-1 this season. -- Long Beach Press Telegram

Young entrepeneur honored

Growing up in the Conejo Valley, Karasik developed a love for film and photography. While attending Cal State Northridge, she worked at the Apple store in Thousand Oaks where she developed skills in the use of creative technology. She earned a bachelor’s degree in cinema and television arts and multimedia production from CSUN in 2011 following studies in film and cinema at Moorpark College.--Simi Valley Acorn

Malibu’s first poet laureate takes the helm

Ybarra attended California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles. That is where he began to hone his passion for writing poetry, thanks to a nudge from Professor Ben Saltman. --Malibu Surfside News

LA-area film production falls 36 percent

But that center still exists in the area, where a huge labor pool for the industry is anchored, said Michael B. Hoggan, a professor of Cinema and Television arts at Cal State Northridge. It’s that pull that will always be a part of the production marketplace, tugging on the industry. Another part will be habits of audiences as movies get expensive and people find digital platforms on which to get their entertainment, he said. -- Pasadena Star-News

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