California State University, professor of interior design at Northridge, Hessam Ghamari, explores this feeling by examining the impact of the environment on our health and well-being through the use of evidence-based technologies. These technologies examine where we look, what we ignore and what attracts our attention when we are in a new position. -- Archy news nety

That’s one of the things Georgia Gwinnett College’s interim president Mary Beth Walker said during a meeting her staff organized with reporters last week. The college was founded in 2006, but already facing infrastructure challenges, particularly with information technology, she said. As we know today’s technology is obsolete tomorrow. Walker also discussed doing more to help adult learners by offering more certificate courses. The average student age is 22.5 and one in eight students are 25 and older. “We’re not a start-up anymore,” she said. “It’s time we move up to another level.” The mission of taking the 12,500-student GGC to another level will be left to one of four finalists for the president’s job. Walker, who took over after last year’s retirement of Stanley “Stas” Preczewski, will become the provost at Cal State Northridge in July. -- AJC

How could you write about the changes and the dip in membership at KCRW [“A Time of Change for KCRW,” March 17, by Randall Roberts] without once mentioning KCSN-FM (88.5)? As a radio junkie, it is obvious to me that what has really sucked the wind from the sails of the mighty “Morning Becomes Eclectic” is the loss of host Nic Harcourt to KCSN, which is now the best radio station in the country, maybe on the planet. -- Los Angeles Times