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Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
“Dr. Mark Sandler is a library leader of great vision whose innovative ideas and persuasive skills carried to fruition two of the most impactful initiatives in the history of digitization,” said Mark Stover, Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award Committee chair and dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge. “His founding of the Text Creation Partnership brought together a number of academic libraries with Proquest, and this collaboration produced the seminal Early English Books Online database. Mark also championed the Google Book Digitization Project among the member libraries of the influential Big Ten Academic Alliance, thus greatly expanding the corpus of digitized books for both the Google project and the HathiTrust repository.” -- American Library Association
SCV athletes sign national letters of intent
“It does feel a little different,” said Santa Clarita Christian’s Chloe Edwards, who inked with California State University, Northridge for women’s soccer. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
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Local athletes celebrate college commitments on National Signing Day
Madison Burke of the Redlands girls soccer team signed with Chico State and Davis Moreno-Jaime of the Terriers boys soccer team committed to Cal State Northridge. -- Redlands Daily Facts
CSUN gets $880,000 grant to cut obesity in Canoga Park
CANOGA PARK >> Nearly one in five kids in and around Canoga Park is obese, public health officials say, with adults suffering slightly higher rates.
Now Cal State Northridge will work to cut the fat among low-income families in Canoga Park by helping them plant fresh vegetables, plan healthy meals and get more exercise. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Free exercise program encourages Turlock to get moving
Created at California State University, Northridge in 2012, the purpose of 100 Citizens is to provide the community with a structured, free exercise program intended to meet or exceed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s minimum recommendations for physical activity, and ultimately improve the health and well-being of community members. Designed to be affordable, replicable and sustainable, the program focuses on the five components of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition. -- Turlock Journal
Celebrate African American Heritage Month in February in the Los Angeles area
Black History Month at Cal State Northridge: Screening of “42” (2013) plus jazz from music students and food trucks, 5 p.m. Feb. 3. Oviatt Library lawn, 18111 Nordhoff St. www.csun.edu -- Los Angeles Daily News
Conference on Hadjin to Take Place in Mission Hills
MISSION HILLS, Calif.—The conference entitled “Hadjin: Remembering a Historic Armenian Community in Cilicia” will take place on Saturday, February 11, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the George Deukmejian Community Center, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, California 91345. The conference, which is dedicated to the memory of Lawrence and Dorothy Avakian, is co-sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. -- Asbarez
Students across US to stage silent protest against denial of the Armenian Genocide
ASAs participating in this year’s Stain of Denial include those based at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Northridge, the Claremont Colleges, Glendale Community College, Los Angeles Valley College, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, Pasadena City College, Santa Monica College, UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and the University of Southern California. For the first time in its history, Stain of Denial will also include universities outside of California as well: Armenian students at Northeastern and Tufts Universities located in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale University, Concordia University, Montreal, and various colleges on the East coast of Canada will be participating. Information on Stain of Denial including details about campus protest locations can be found on the All-ASA website: www.all-asa.org . -- Public Radio of Armenia
Santa Monica Public Library Announces 2017 Santa Monica Reads Selection
The Cartoon Self with Charles Hatfield – Fun Home carries on the tradition of autobiographical comics or graphic memoir. Join CSUN Professor Charles Hatfield for an illustrated talk about the roots and branches of this burgeoning genre. Saturday, March 11 at 2 p.m., Main Library, MLK Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. -- Santa Monica Daily Press
All-ASA to Coordinate Silent Protests Against Genocide Denial in U.S. and Canada
ASAs participating in this year’s Stain of Denial include those based at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Northridge, the Claremont Colleges, Glendale Community College, Los Angeles Valley College, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, Pasadena City College, Santa Monica College, UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and the University of Southern California. Universities outside of California, as well as Canadian universities, will be participating as well. -- The Armenian Weekly