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OPINION Let’s use attention on DACA to call for reform for all immigrants
As the son of immigrants, I know what kind of sacrifices my parents made to give me and my two sisters a better life. My mom and dad came to Los Angeles as young adults — her from Nicaragua and him from Mexico — fell in love in English class, married and scrimped and saved to raise us and put us all through college. Although we survived without fancy vacations or dinners out, I had one advantage that many children of immigrants do not: I was born in Koreatown in Los Angeles. As a U.S. citizen, I was able to earn my bachelor’s degree in business marketing and my master’s degree in public administration from Cal State Northridge. Today, I work for the county as a human resources manager. -- Whittier Daily News
POETS AT WORK: FROM ROSES TO WRITTEN ‘WROSES’
Aside from poetry, Jordan is dedicated to furthering her education. She received her B.A. in Child and Adolescent Development at Cal State Northridge, and is currently working on a master’s degree in School Counseling at Cal State Dominguez Hills. -- L.A. Taco
Dr. Raymond Joseph McHugh, Jr. has died
Dr. Raymond (Ray) McHugh, a resident of San Carlos, passed away peacefully aged 96. Ray was a professor at California State University Northridge (CSUN) from 1963 to 1992, in the Department of Secondary Education. He taught a generation of college students how to be good history teachers, and he co-wrote a U.S. history textbook, Quest For Liberty. Ray is remembered for his optimism and gentle, quirky sense of humor. -- San Mateo Daily Journal
CSUN Professor, NASA Scientists Looking for Indicators in Formation of New Planets
Peering far out into the universe, astronomers and astrophysicists look for markers — indicators such as patterns in disks of dust — that might indicate the formation of new planets. Recently, however, a team of NASA scientists that includes California State University, Northridge astronomy professor Wladimir Lyra, has discovered evidence that these disk patterns can form on their own, fed by gas and dust, without the presence of planets. -- SCV News
Jan. 18: Oviatt Library Expansion Readies for Grand Reopening
After two years of renovations and a complete transformation, California State University, Northridge’s Delmar T. Oviatt Library Special Collections and Archives is poised for a grand reopening. To celebrate the expansion and honor Jack and Florence Ferman’s generous $2.5 million bequest, the CSUN community is invited to attend the reopening reception on Thursday, Jan. 18, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the library. -- SCV News
Beautiful Patterns In Debris Disks Can Be Forged By Starlight
Back then, Wladimir Lyra, a professor of astronomy at California State University, Northridge, and Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at Goddard, teamed up to better understand why disks aren’t always perfectly formed. Publishing a new model in Nature, they explained that sharply defined rings and broken circles – or arcs – could form when stars emit enough ultraviolet light. -- IFL Science!
Ultraviolet Light, Not Just Planets, Can Create Disk Patterns Around Stars
Kuchner and Wladimir Lyra, an astronomy professor at California State University, Northridge, and research associate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, proposed in 2013 that PeI could explain why rings seen in some disks were narrow, and also predicted the presence of incomplete rings in some disks. These arcs were first directly observed three years later. -- International Business Times
No planets needed: NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generate
Kuchner and his colleagues designed computer simulations to better understand these effects. The research was led by Alexander Richert, a doctoral student at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, and includes Wladimir Lyra, a professor of astronomy at California State University, Northridge and research associate at NASA’s Jet Propulstion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The simulations were run on the Discover supercomputing cluster at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard. -- IndiaBlooms
UCLA Scientists Make Cells That Enable The Sense Of Touch
The research was supported by grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its Cal State Northridge-UCLA Bridges to Stem Cell Research program, the National Institutes of Health and the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center. -- Public Now
CSUN Students Identify Tools to Help Scientists Investigate Abnormal Cell Formation
Thousands of cells develop before any recognizable form of life takes shape. Humans have more than 10 trillion cells, and the number of cells in plants and animals vary species to species. The journey an individual cell takes when determining what to become is an adventure that many scientists follow closely. -- AmericanTowns.com