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STEM Students & Faculty Invited To Be Part Of The CSUN Build PODER Program!

Attention all STEM and health majors! Find out how you can gain hands-on research experience in the biomedical field by joining the CSUN Build PODER program. Also, STEM faculty are also invited to be CSUN Build PODER mentors. Learn more at the Build PODER Workshop on April 18 at 10 a.m. in the SSA's Career/Transfer Center. -- Public Now

A Space Fan's Guide to the March for Science

The Los Angeles satellite march boasts an impressive list of speakers, including Allison Schroeder, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of "Hidden Figures"; Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and author of multiple popular books about cosmology; and Farisa Morales, an astrophysicist and professor at California State University, Northridge, and Moorpark College in California, who also worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Spitzer Space Telescope. In San Francisco, Adam Savage, co-host of the "MythBusters" TV show, will join the slate of speakers. - Space.com

CSUN Professor Creates Free Online Course to Prepare High School Students for College Biology

Malone is currently working on enabling the course to give high school and transfer students CSUN life science general education credit. Students considering biology as a major can use the course to gain in-depth knowledge of their high school biology curriculum and it may help them decide if biology is the field they want to study in college, Malone said.--SCVNews.com

Futurists want to transform Black Mirror’s dystopia into something better

The project will be held at the virtual reality online media company Upload VR’s new UploadLA incubator and mixed reality studio. The effort is organized by L.A. futurist and artist Zenka. Participants from research facilities such as California State University Northridge and the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technology.--Venture Beat

CSUN Art Gallery Shares Students’ Creative Visions

The Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition will be on display from April 7-26 at California State University, Northridge's Art Galleries. The exhibition will showcase work from CSUN's undergraduate and graduate art students in the Main Gallery. --Public Now

Futurists want to transform Black Mirror’s dystopia into something better

The project will be held at the virtual reality online media company Upload VR’s new UploadLA incubator and mixed reality studio. The effort is organized by L.A. futurist and artist Zenka. Participants from research facilities such as California State University Northridge and the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technology. -- NewsDog

LA-area film production falls 36 percent

But that center still exists in the area, where a huge labor pool for the industry is anchored, said Michael B. Hoggan, a professor of Cinema and Television arts at Cal State Northridge. It’s that pull that will always be a part of the production marketplace, tugging on the industry. Another part will be habits of audiences as movies get expensive and people find digital platforms on which to get their entertainment, he said. -- Pasadena Star-News

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