University Advancement

  • Oviatt Library

Clips

Yakima Valley Pippins left-hander Zach Draper named WCL Pitcher of the Year

First-team All-WCL C — Willie MacIver (Washington, soph), Walla Walla Sweets 1B — Michael Toglia (UCLA, frosh), Wenatchee AppleSox 2B — Christian Koss (UC Irvine, frosh), Yakima Valley Pippins 3B — Brad Pluschkell (UC Davis, junior), Victoria HarbourCats SS — Freddy Smith (Cal State Northridge, senior), Yakima Valley Pippins -- Yakima Herald - WA

Bob Kersee, Allyson Felix’s Coach: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Born in Panama, Kersee went to high school in Los Angeles, California, and was a star hurdler in junior college. He eventually went to Long Beach State, where he earned a degree in physical education in 1978, and then to Cal State Northridge, where he worked on his masters in exercise physiology and coached the women’s team to back-to-back national titles. -- Heavy

Raymond Merrill II lives his dream

Merrill enrolled at Cal State Northridge in Southern California. Needing an outlet, he wandered into a local gym. He wasn’t a boxing fan, but he found that working out with the heavy bag, felt right. -- Max Boxing

Wendi Deng: The Woman Who Juggled Three of the Most Powerful Men in the World

It seems Wendi Deng had humble beginnings, though her taste for older, wealthy, and often, married men has been longstanding. She first came to the US on a student visa, sponsored by an American family, Jake and Joyce Cherry. She attended California State University Northridge, then obtained her masters in business administration at Yale University. - Empty Lighthouse Magazine

GuitarSarasota Announces New Non-Profit Partnership with the Historical Society of Sarasota County for the 2016 Giving Challenge and GuitarSarasota’s Mini-Concert & Lecture Series

Jane Hoffman was a faculty member at Humboldt State University in California for eight years. She has traveled abroad to study in Nice, France and performed in Mallorca, Spain. Jane has performed in the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in Manhattan with the Contemporary Chamber Players and was a fellow in the Sarasota Music Festival in 1993. Jane has earned a Masters Degree from Cal State Northridge 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree SUNY Stony Brook 1995. - Tampa Bay Newswire - FLA

Autonomous Alloys – Live-fire Targets Evolved: Magnetic resetting live-fire targets offering an unmatched and definitive multi-sensory feedback

An avid FPS gamer as well as a sport shooting enthusiest, Mark developed the concept of magnetic resetting targets to bring a new technology to shooting targets. That path led the two brothers through a year of testing many dozen electromagnet designs as well as introducing custom sensors for millisecond hit detection. Mark holds a B.S. in Computer Science from California State University Northridge. -- iCrowd Newswire

Trio of Cal State University campuses look to keep first-year students in school

The Cal State University campuses of Long Beach, Dominguez Hills and Northridge are among the 44 U.S. institutions participating in a project called “Re-imagining the First year of College.” The American Association of State Colleges and Universities is coordinating the endeavor, which has been designed as a three-year project intended to improve the overall college experience and encourage students to proceed from their first to second year. - Los Angeles Daily News

Metro's new discounted student transit passes available at 6 colleges this fall

Starting Monday, a new so-called "U-pass" will be available at California State University, Northridge. The pass will also be offered at five other area colleges in coming weeks: Pasadena City College and Rio Hondo College on August 22, Los Angeles Trade Technical College on Aug. 29 and American Career College and West Coast University on October 15. -- KPCC Southern California Public Radio

Pages