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As Empires Fall hopes to take main stage at Vans Warped Tour

The Newbury Park resident is a bit of a worrier, which is why he has a career backup plan. If music doesn’t work out, he’ll transfer to CSU Northridge and continue his studies in film, which he says is his “other passion.” -- Camarillo Acorn

Cheech Marin, a singular Renaissance man, talks about comedy, pottery, pot, art and his new memoir

His second interest was pottery, cultivated in the ceramics lab at Valley State College (now Cal State Northridge). “I just fell in love with it,” he recalls. “The first time you center a piece of clay, you feel this force in the universe. I describe it in the book like this tuning fork went off in my loins. It’s where my recessive Mexican craft gene came out. It was like, ‘Vato!’” -- The Herald - SC

Cesar Chavez Service Fair to Offer Students Volunteer Opportunities

For the past eight years, California State University, Northridge’s volunteer program, Unified We Serve, has hosted the Annual Cesar Chavez Service Fair to honor the late civil rights and labor leader by encouraging community service and volunteer work among students, faculty and the community. The Cesar Chavez Service Fair this year will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 30, at the Matador Bookstore, located on the southeast side of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge. -- San Fernando Valley Sun

How Does Fi360 'Score' With Academia?

New analysis conducted by the Center for Financial Planning and Investment at California State University, Northridge, finds the Fi360 Fiduciary Score can be useful to financial advisors when selecting investments for their clients. -- 401K Specialist Magazine

Hidden Figures Screenwriter Will Speak at L.A. March for Science

The much-anticipated March for Science has added some star power to what’s shaping up as a momentous day. The April 22 downtown march, which is expected to draw a crowd of 50,000, will have a pre-march rally, a performance by the West Los Angeles Children’s Choir, and several speakers. Those who have confirmed include: MariaElena Zavala, professor of biology at California State University-Northridge Tepring Piquado, neurobiologist at the RAND Corporation Farisa Morales, astrophysicist and professor at California State University-Northridge andMoorpark College -- Los Angeles Magazine

Faith-Based Groups are Inspiring and Diversifying Environmentalism, CSUN Professor Says

As politicians in Washington D.C., rewrite and pull back federal environmental regulations, they may be surprised to discover that some of the loudest objections are coming from interfaith groups that cross racial and ethnic lines, according to Amanda Baugh, an assistant professor of religious studies at California State University, Northridge. -- AmericanTowns.com

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