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A pilgrimage across the world to a promise kept
Bollinger volunteers at Peterson Hospice and worked with veterans at Warriors Heart. She was born in Argentina and migrated with her family to southern California, where she spent most of her life. She earned a degree in Geography and in Recreational and Leisure Studies at Cal State Northridge. Bollinger found her home in Bandera after attending her son’s graduation at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. -- Bandera County Courier
Jenna Elfman: Who is the star of ABC’s new comedy show Imaginary Mary?
Her high-school years were spent at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and she went to college at California State University, Northridge. -- Monsters & Critics
Young Westlake entrepreneur named 2017 NAWBO winner
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. -- The Acorn
Grey's Anatomy's Chandra Wilson Opens Up About Daughter's Mysterious, Incurable Vomiting Syndrome
Now McFarlane, who’s studying screenwriting at Cal State Northridge, and her mom try to remain upbeat. -- People Magazine
Class act: From the San Fernando Valley to LA to Redlands, there’s lots of music on tap
Then, the Colburn Orchestra, one of the nation’s premier conservatory ensembles, appears at Cal State Northridge’s Valley Performing Arts Center on April 2 in a free performance. Ludovic Morlot, music director of the Seattle Symphony, will lead the Colburn ensemble in Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” and Bizet’s “A Carmen Fantasy” as arranged by Frank Proto, with Mik-young Soung, double bass, as soloist. -- Redlands Daily Facts
Brexit triggered, preprint push and a stem-cell first
Open-access push Four California universities have formally committed themselves to the goal of making all scholarly publishing open access. On 20 March, the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Francisco and California State University, Northridge, signed up to an international initiative called OA2020, launched by Germany’s Max Planck Society in 2015. Its aim is to push publishers towards open-access business models. The universities are the first academic institutions in the United States to sign up to the initiative’s expression of interest, now endorsed by 82 universities and scholarly organizations worldwide. -- Nature
What’s closed on Cesar Chavez Day in the Los Angeles area, March 31, 2017
Schools: Los Angeles Unified School District schools are closed (home.lausd.net). Cal State Northridge and Mission, Pierce and Valley colleges are closed. -- Los Angeles Daily News
How to Do Earth Day in L.A.
The Cal State Northridge Institute for Sustainability (18111 Nordhoff St.; www.csun.edu/sustainability) has been working with students at 19 San Fernando Valley schools on a year-long project involving energy and water efficiency. On April 29, as part of the Institute’s free Family Earth Day Celebration from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., the elementary, middle and high school students will do their presentations. There will be games, giveaways, a lunch to enjoy and the planetarium to explore. The Theatre of Will will do water-related musical performances, and the Wildwoods Foundation will conduct a hands-on aqueduct-building demonstration. RSVP by visiting www.eventbrite.com and searching “Family Earth Day Celebration” so organizers know how many will be attending. -- LA Parent
Harnessing the Power of Accessible Technology with the Help of Its Users
I recently attended the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) annual technology conference, put on by the campus' Center on Disabilities. This gathering is the biggest and most well-known conference to focus exclusively on assistive and accessible technologies for populations with special needs. -- TechSoup
Faith-Based Groups Are Inspiring And Diversifying Environmentalism, CSUN Professor Says
As politicians in Washington D.C., rewrite and pull back federal environmental regulations, they may be surprised to discover that some of the loudest objections are coming from interfaith groups that cross racial and ethnic lines, according to Amanda Baugh, an assistant professor of religious studies at California State University, Northridge. -- Public Now