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Food pantries, loaned textbooks and child care: California's community colleges help needy students
There’s also a lactation room for mothers, including a refrigerator for breast milk, something Angel wishes she knew about sooner as a student there. “I had been pumping in the bathroom and I had been carrying a cooler with me to keep my breast milk cold while going to classes,” said Angel, who earned an associate degree in child development before transferring to CSU Northridge for her bachelor’s in science and family studies. -- EdSource
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: L.A. Conservation Corps prepares young people for jobs
Carlos, a young man studying robotics engineering at Cal State Northridge, was helping his family of eight making ends meet while going to school full-time. Eventually, he was left with the decision to either continue his undergraduate studies or leave school to work to help his family. -- Los Angeles Wave
Why are we afraid of clowns?
According to a psychology professor at California State University, Northridge, children "are very impressed to see a common body with an unfamiliar face." -- Multimedias Laguna - (in Spanish)
The ‘Manly’ Jobs Problem
In interviews with more than 60 women in male-dominated trades such as construction, Amy Denissen, a former associate professor of sociology at California State University at Northridge, and Abigail Saguy, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, found countless similar examples. While lesbians are also harassed, “in some ways women who are lesbian are seen as less threatening,” Saguy said. “They’re seen as not fully women.” -- WRAL - NC
Want To Get Hands-On Research Experience? Be A Part Of CSUN's BUILD PODER Program!
Find out how you can participate in a hands-on research in health, behavioral, and biomedical sciences at CSUN! Come talk with the BUILD PODER representative on February 13 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or attend a BUILD PODER Application Workshop on February 13 at 12:30 p.m. in the Career/Transfer Center. -- Public Now
Shows of the Night: Saturday, February 10th
Sandra Shapiro @ Cal State Northridge -- theSceneStar
PPG Foundation Invests More Than $69,000 in 14 Organizations on Behalf of Aerospace Business
California State University Northridge Foundation: $5,000 to support Rally in the Valley, which is an annual robotics competition and science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) exposition. -- Stockwwatch
Free Archaeology Lecture Featuring James Snead
James E. Snead is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge. Awarded the Ph.D. at UCLA in 1994, he has held numerous fellowships and grants, including funding by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and a postdoctoral appointment at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. -- The Foothills Focus
You don’t have to be rich to have a financial planner
Others seek niches in ways of thinking about the world. Inga Chira, 35, who has a doctorate in finance and is an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, maintains a part-time practice with a focus on money and happiness. -- News-Journal
Shows of the Night: Sunday, February 11th
Tempo @ Cal State Northridge -- theSceneStar