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Is Alzheimer’s treatment of injecting stem cells into the brain a breakthrough or quackery?
brain/stem cell injections. But their first attempt at Institutional Review Board approval was denied because they hadn’t done animal testing. So they got Dr. Oleg Kopyov at Cal State Northridge to conduct tests on rats. -- Standard-Times
Kurdish researcher to help families of children with special needs
Soraya Fallah, a Kurdish activist who is undertaking her doctorate studies in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University, Northridge is studying the situation of culturally and linguistically diverse families in the US whose children require special care. -- Kurdistan 24
Patrick Swayze double bill among movie screenings in the Los Angeles area
Classic American Silent Films Series at Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge: “The General” (1927), 8 p.m. March 25. New West Symphony performs the score. Tickets $38; $48 (plus fees). 18111 Nordhoff St. www.valleyperformingartscenter.org -- Los Angeles Daily News
Patrick Swayze double bill among movie screenings in the Los Angeles area
Classic American Silent Films Series at Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge: “The General” (1927), 8 p.m. March 25. New West Symphony performs the score. Tickets $38; $48 (plus fees). 18111 Nordhoff St. www.valleyperformingartscenter.org -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
Hollywood's Immigrant 'Dreamers' Living in Fear of Trump's Pledge to "Terminate" DACA
Zuniga, now 28, spoke virtually no English when he entered junior high in Santa Barbara, but was fluent by ninth grade. And by the time he attended Cal State Northridge, he had discovered graphic arts could be a career. His college graduation coincided with President Barack Obama's June 2012 executive action called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. -- The Hollywood Reporter
CSUN's Daniela Gerson: The Week in Immigration Coverage: Building The Wall, the Profiteers and Policy Departures
This week, as DHS started accepting bids to design the wall, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez reconnected with a 76-year-old man and Trump supporter who spent decades repairing holes in the U.S.-Mexico border wall. He told Lopez that expanding the wall was a bad decision: “They’re going to come across and it doesn’t make any difference. If you can see blue sky, they’ll go up and over the top, or they’ll crawl underneath.” -- Media Shift
Is Alzheimer's treatment of injecting stem cells into the brain a breakthrough or quackery?
Duma, with Berman, Lander and Elam as co-authors, tried to begin a study of brain/stem cell injections. But their first attempt at Institutional Review Board approval was denied because they hadn't done animal testing. So they got Dr. Oleg Kopyov at Cal State Northridge to conduct tests on rats. -- Sacramento Bee
Thieves Steal College Students' Prize-Winning Project
A group of engineering students from Cal State Northridge in California traveled to Fort Worth TX last weekend to participate in an engineering competition, and their radio-controlled airplane "The Dragon" won second place overall. -- Aero News Network
Valencia’s Josh Ferguson tops All-Foothill League boys soccer list
Ferguson plans to attend Cal State Northridge next season to study communication and business, and he hopes to play soccer. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Truck Carrying Priceless Custom RC Plane Stolen in Fort Worth
The students from California State University-Northridge were in Fort Worth for the weekend to compete in a custom engineered remote-controlled plane competition, and that trailer contained their plane, tools and all of the components they'd worked the entire school year to design. -- NBCDFW - TX