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Trump immigration policies targeted by Garcetti for mayor’s State of City?

The location of the City Hall chambers for the annual speech is a departure for Garcetti, who last year delivered it at an LED maker near the Port of Los Angeles, at the Valley Performance Arts Center at Cal State Northridge in 2015, and at the Wallis Annenberg Building at the California Science Center in 2014. -- MyNewsLA

UCLA Overtakes Number One Spot In Women's Varsity Top 25 Poll

Wagner College (30 points), Harvard University (24 points), Loyola Marymount University (20 points) and CSU Bakersfield (17 points) retain the No. 19-to-22 slots with California State University-Northridge (9 points), Marist College (8 points) and the Virginia Military Institute (4 points) completing this week's Top 25. -- USA Water Polo

The Cheech You Don’t Know

Marin, whose father worked as an LAPD patrolman, begins his tale in the Canadian Rockies. It’s 1968, and he’s a 22-year-old Vietnam War resister dodging the draft — a native of South Central L.A. straight out of San Fernando Valley State College (now Cal State Northridge), hunting and fishing and chopping wood to survive. Later, Marin meets a guy trying to start an improvisational theater company in a Vancouver topless bar. That was Tommy Chong and the rest, as they say, is history. -- Pasadena Weekly

Poker & Pop Culture: Going to California to Study 'Poker Faces'

Hayano earned a doctorate in anthropology from UCLA during the 1970s, his dissertation focusing on the Awa and Gimi people of Papua New Guinea. He then took a position at CSU-Northridge, at which point he started work on his next study, this time focusing primarily on the card rooms of Los Angeles county — including those in Gardena — and the behaviors of those who frequented them. -- Poker News

U.S. National Lab Research Payloads Headed for ISS

Sharlene Katz, Ph.D., P.E., California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA A CubeSat that tests out a new light-weight, longer-life battery system designed for the cold temperatures of space. A new configuration of high energy density materials known as ultra-capacitors, along with updated lithium-ion battery technology allows CSUNSat1 batteries to operate at very low temperatures without the added weight of a defrost system. A set of quantitative power and capacity goals are used to assess the battery system performance over a 200 day mission period. -- Parabolic Arc

CSUN Professor Ponders What It Means To Be Muslim In America

Gender and women’s studies professor Nayereh Tohidi, director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at California State University, Northridge, feels her stomach clench every time she hears about an alleged terrorist attack. -- AmericanTowns.com

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