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Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 8.11.23
Nola Kennedy, of Los Angeles, has been reappointed to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, where she has served since 2018. Kennedy has been a Professor and Department Chair at California State University, Northridge since 2013. She was a Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2012 to 2013, where she held several positions from 2000 to 2012, including Assistant Researcher and Adjunct Assistant Professor. Kennedy was Manager of Industrial Hygiene Servies at Drucker Health and Safety Management Inc. from 1987 to 1991. She is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Kennedy earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Health Science – Industrial Hygiene from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Kennedy is a Democrat. -- CA.gov
Vallejo Navy Junior ROTC cadets receive scholarships
Cadet Ensign Teadora De Los Santos, NJROTC, has been accepted to the University of California at Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, and CSU Northridge. -- Times-Herald
Guest column: 25,720 alumni later, CSUCI impact is personal and profound
Without a doubt, our biggest point of pride is our students. As the only public university serving Ventura County and the only CSU campus between Northridge and San Luis Obispo, our primary mission always has been to provide an affordable and accessible way for students to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in this region. -- Ventura County Star
2023 Top 25 American Film Schools, Ranked
24. California State University, Northridge -- The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood actors, writers strikes have cost CA economy $3 billion, expert says
Together, they have cost the state about $3 billion, according to an analysis from California State University-Northridge Assistant Professor Todd Holmes. -- Spectrum News1
Hollywood's 100 days of strikes have likely dealt a $3 billion blow to California's economy, a university professor says
Todd Holmes, an entertainment industry professor at Cal State Northridge, based his estimate on economic analysis from the last time writers went on strike in 2007. -- Business Insider
Doubts About the Value of Economists’ Testimony May Have Cost Calif. Consumers $26 Billion, CSUN Prof Asserts
What stunned California State University, Northridge business law professor Melanie Stallings Williams was that the judge in the case of Persian Gulf Inc. v. BP West Coast Products LLC acknowledged there was evidence of conspiracies to raise prices. However, the judge still dismissed the lawsuit because she did not find testimony from the economists who substantiated the price fixing valid. -- SCV News
A Big Factor In How AI Will Change Our World Is Trust, CSUN Prof Says
As all these questions are hotly debated, California State University, Northridge marketing professor Kristen Walker, an expert on technology and data privacy in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, sees gaining public trust in these new tools as just as big of a hurdle. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Local Teen First Female Eagle Scout in 76-year History of Sylmar BSA Troop
Celeste Rios, a Saugus High School graduate and freshman at CSUN, is known for going “above and beyond” in everything she does. A highly-decorated member of Scouts BSA, the flagship program of the Boy Scouts of America, Rios earned 43 merit badges – more than double the amount required – to become the first-ever female Eagle Scout in the 76-year history of Troop 94 in Sylmar. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Hollywood strikes have already had a $3 billion impact on California’s economy, experts say: It’s causing ‘a lot of hardship’
That’s according to estimates from Todd Holmes, a professor of entertainment industry management at Cal State Northridge, based on economic analysis from the last Writers Guild of America strike that started in 2007. That strike led to 37,700 lost jobs and a $2.1 billion blow to the California economy, according to the Milken Institute, an economic think tank. -- CNBC