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What triggers an earthquake and how are they measured? A California physicist answers
The Bee spoke to seismologist Dr. Julian Lozos, an earthquake physicist and associate professor at California State University Northridge about what triggers an earthquake and how they are measured. -- Yahoo! News
Is academic probation working at California’s colleges?
In the latest of our ‘Ask CJN’ series, Cal State Northridge student Isabella Warren asks what colleges are doing to support students on academic probation. That probation status is supposed to be a wake-up call for students, but campuses vary in their approach. Some, we found, are experimenting with new ways to reduce the stigma and retain students. -- CalMatters
In Southern California, everything is blooming everywhere all at once
The combination of those two factors has produced "an absolutely glorious spring," one that has been more vibrantly colorful for longer than any in recent memory, said Jeremy Yoder, a Cal State Northridge biologist. -- Merced Sun-Star
Business council report says LA must cut rules to reach state’s housing goal
The report authored by UCLA and California State University Northridge examined how the long and complex housing development process has contributed to the city’s failure to keep pace with housing needs set by the state. According to California’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), the city must add approximately 456,643 units from 2021 to 2029, a five-fold increase over the 83,865 units produced from 2010 to 2019. -- Los Angeles Daily News
New Apartment Buildings Take Four Years To Finish In LA, Study Says
Researchers from UCLA and Cal State Northridge found the city would need to increase the pace of construction more than five-fold to reach a state-mandated goal of almost 457,000 new homes by 2029, based on current approval and construction timelines. -- LAist
Study to trace California cannabis lineage, preserve oral history of legacy cultivators
The other principal investigators include Todd Holmes, a historian at the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley; Genine Coleman, executive director of the Origins Council; Rachel Giraudo, anthropology professor at CSU Northridge and Eleanor Kuntz of LeafWorks, a cannabis and hemp genetic testing company. -- San Jose Mercury News
LADWP Honors Environmental Leaders In Northridge
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Leadership Award
1st Place: California State University, Northridge
2nd Place: University of Southern California
3rd Place: Fenix Marine Services, LTD -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
CSUN Marks Its 2023 Commencement with a Series of Celebrations
Thousands will be cheering later this month as more than 11,000 graduating students cross the stage in front of California State University, Northridge’s iconic University Library as CSUN celebrates its 2023 commencement. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
How Teachers Can Collectively Push Back Against Gun Violence
Although some legislators have suggested that the best response is to arm teachers, there are a myriad of complex issues that this raises—like training, compensation, and safe storage. Furthermore, both a 2019 survey of over 2,900 current and former teachers from California State University Northridge and a 2022 survey of nearly 4,000 teachers from the Texas Federation of Teachers found that the majority of teachers do not believe they should carry guns in the classroom. Teachers don’t want legislators to give us autonomy to carry guns; we want autonomy to do our jobs. -- Education Week
Could charging Big Tech a ‘journalism usage fee’ help save local news?
In my classroom at Cal State Northridge, where I teach journalism, I often discuss the state of the industry in California and the rest of the U.S. When my students share their perspectives and concerns about the field, some gingerly assert that the newspaper industry is spiraling toward death. -- Los Angeles Times