CSU chancellor, CSUN president postpone retirements due to coronavirus
LONG BEACH — California State University Chancellor Timothy White and Cal State Northridge President Dianne Harrison will delay their previously announced end-of-academic-year retirements due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Long Beach-based university system announced today. -- San Bernardino Sun
Urban Coyotes Eat A Lot of Garbage—And Cats
The study, published in PLOS One, focused on coyotes in the Los Angeles area. Led by Rachel Larson, who at the time was a biology graduate student at California State University Northridge, researchers studied the animals using two different methods. The first was poop. Aided by around 150 citizen scientists, the team collected and dissected the feces—or “scat”—of coyotes across Los Angeles, Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks, scooping poop from both urban and suburban areas. They were searching for tangible signs of anything the coyotes may have been eating, like fur, feathers, bones and seeds. -- Smithsonian Magazine
Former Clevelander married one hour before NJ lockdown
Granovitz, a native of Los Angeles, celebrated his bar mitzvah at Chabad of the Beach Cities in Redondo Beach, Calif. He graduated from Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles and served in the infantry of the Israel Defense Forces after high school. He subsequently studied business and information technology at California State University in Northridge and later studied for six months at Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva in Far Rockaway, N.J., for six months prior to landing a job as an application developer at a New Jersey hospital system. -- Cleveland Jewish News
Column: Here’s how my family handled the first week of no school. Hint: There were some slammed doors
The problem in our house — and I suspect we are not alone in this — is that I am not by nature a teacher, despite the fact that both of my parents were. My father taught American literature at Cal State Northridge; my mother was an itinerant teacher for deaf and hard-of-hearing kids in L.A. Unified. Both were wonderful with students. -- Los Angeles TImes
With rising numbers on the streets, Anna Laven takes over Homeless Collaborative
When her daughter was born, Laven returned to Bakersfield, working first at Cal State Northridge before becoming a field representative for Perez and later moving on to positions at Cal State Bakersfield and Bakersfield College. -- Bakersfield Californian
Cal State Northridge Hall of Fame coach Gary Torgeson dies
Gary Torgeson, a Hall of Fame softball coach and former football coach at Cal State Northridge who guided the Matadors to four NCAA Division II softball titles in the 1980s, died Saturday morning in Ventura. He was 78. -- Yahoo! News
Regional; Cal State President And Other Leaders Postpone Retirements Due To Crisis
Day said Morishita, CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White and Cal State Northridge President Dianne Harrison will continue in their respective roles through this fall. -- SF Gate
Where are they now? A look at UCLA’s 1995 NCAA men’s basketball championship team
COACHES
Head coach Jim Harrick — Assistant coach at Cal State Northridge
Assistant Mark Gottfriend — Head coach at Cal State Northridge -- Los Angeles Times
Cal State Northridge Hall of Fame coach Gary Torgeson dies
Gary Torgeson, a Hall of Fame softball coach and former football coach at Cal State Northridge who guided the Matadors to four NCAA Division II softball titles in the 1980s, died Saturday morning in Ventura. He was 78. -- Los Angeles Times
New Historical Novel Sets Love and Murder Against the Backdrop of the Barbary Wars
Alice Von Kannon is an author and historian who has written for TruTV, History and the Discovery Channel, as well as appearing in several TV documentaries, including America: Facts vs. Fiction, Inside Secret Societies, Codes and Conspiracies for American Heroes Channel, America's Book of Secrets and Hunting the Lost Symbol. She attended California State University Northridge and L.A. Valley College, and worked many years in advertising as a writer and broadcast producer. Alice has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East, and has written extensively on the subject of the Barbary Wars and the birth of the United States Navy. She is also the co-author, with her husband Chris Hodapp, of several books in the popular "Dummies" series for Wiley Publishing, including Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies for Dummies and The Templar Code for Dummies. -- Benzinga