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LA County businesses experience ‘A Day Without Immigrants’
“The purpose of (A Day Without Immigrants) is to send a message of how much immigrants are needed and what it’s like if they are not around,” said Martha Escobar, assistant professor of Chicano/a Studies at Cal State Northridge. -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
CSULB Theatre Arts Kicks Off Spring Semester with SHE KILLS MONSTERS
Amanda McRaven is a director, theater-maker, educator, and writer. She is the winner of the 2014 Ovation Award for Directing and a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. The former Director of Education for the American Shakespeare Center, she is now based in Los Angeles where she teaches Performance Studies at California State University Northridge and makes theatre with her company, The Fugitive Kind. -- Broadway World Los Angeles
Viola Davis Gives Lecture At California State University Northridge
On Feb. 8th, Emmy winner Viola Davis presented a lecture to 16 hundred students at California State University Northridge (CSUN). Lately, she has been breaking social norms and paving the way for women of color to play more versatile roles in Hollywood. She currently plays the role of Annalise Keating, a law professor, on the hit show “How To Get Away With Murder.” -- Inglewood Today
CSUN's Dianne F. Harrison: On sexual assault prevention, a message to Devos from universities
With the confirmation of new Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who has not yet stated her support for the 2011 Title IX language about the role of colleges and universities to prevent sexual assaults, it is more important than ever for all institutions of higher education to send a clear signal to Washington, D.C., that we will not and cannot retreat from the progress made in combating sexual violence on our campuses. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Groundbreaking Research: New Building to Enable Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration
When California State University, Northridge formalized research as one of the university’s seven priorities in 2012, even the most optimistic member of the campus community could hardly have imagined the impact. In 2016, the journal Nature named CSUN a Top 25 Rising Star for scientific research, along with Stanford, Carnegie Mellon and NASA. CSUN was the only public university in California on the list. On Feb. 7, CSUN took the first step toward even greater research success with the groundbreaking of the 10,000-square-foot Research Building 1. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Opinion: L.A. is already trying to reduce the effect of its 'urban heat island'
One is the L.A. Urban Cooling Research Partnership, which seeks to quantify the public health benefits of using increased tree canopy cover to cool cities. The partnership includes TreePeople, Climate Resolve, Global Cool Cities Alliance and scientists from UCLA, Yale, the University of Miami and Cal State Northridge. -- Los Angeles Times
Can California students record a teacher?
Nate Thomas, a film professor and president of the faculty union at Cal State Northridge, doesn’t want distractions or the privacy of anyone in the classroom invaded. -- Lake County Record-Bee
Can electric fields speed wound healing for diabetics?
Collaborators include researchers at Zhejiang University, the University of Minho, and California State University-Northridge. The National Institutes of Health and Research to Prevent Blindness Inc. supported the project. -- Knowledge Science Report
Pan African Film Festival among movie screening events in the Los Angeles area
Cinematheque at Cal State Northridge: John Cassavetes Retrospective: “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), 7 p.m. Feb. 23. Armer Theater in Manzanita Hall, Auditorium Room 100. 18111 Nordhoff St. www.csun.edu -- Los Angeles Daily News
Weekend Fun for LA Kids: Cookie Con, Scotsfest, American Girl , Feb 18 - 19
VPAC Playdate: Shaolin Warriors, The Legend Continues - Northridge
The Shaolin Warriors perform dazzling displays of martial arts skill. -- Mommy Poppins