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School Board Races Shift Into High Gear as 7 Pull Papers
Velázquez is a professor at Cal State Northridge. Her son and daughter attend San Rafael Elementary. -- Pasadena Now
Environmental groups sue county over LA River Master Plan
LA Waterkeeper, working with a graduate student from Cal State Northridge, kept track of community feedback during steering committee meetings. The group said 40% of the respondents emphasized the environment and nature as the most important goals for the L.A. River. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Newsom’s bid to make textbooks free delayed in community colleges central office
From that point, Estrada only enrolled in courses that used free textbooks, of which there are many in College of the Canyon’s sociology department. He said he used the website Rate My Professors to find professors who used free textbooks. He ultimately finished his associate degree in sociology this spring and is transferring this fall to California State University, Northridge. -- Desert Sun
California drive for free textbooks delayed in community colleges' central office
From that point, Estrada only enrolled in courses that used free textbooks, of which there are many in College of the Canyon's sociology department. He said he used the website Rate My Professors to find professors who used free textbooks. He ultimately finished his associate degree in sociology this spring and is transferring this fall to California State University, Northridge. -- Napa Valley Register
Meet the 2022 summer interns
Pamela Garcia is a graduate of John H. Francis Polytechnic High School where she wrote and served in various editor’s positions for her school’s newspaper, The Poly Optimist. This fall, she will attend Cal State Northridge as a journalism major. In addition to written journalism, she also explored the realm of broadcast journalism through her high school’s news show, The Poly 10. She likes writing opinion pieces about major social issues, and all things entertainment. In her free time, you’ll most likely find her at a concert, or at her desk trying to rank up on a video game. -- Los Angeles Times
CSUN students grow robust vegetable crops inside a freight container
Innovative vertical hydroponics yields "two acres" of greens at college's Institute for Sustainability in Northridge - Los Angeles Daily News
Fed up with net-zero climate goals, activists call for 'real zero'
"Companies use the mantra net zero as a fig leaf for continuing whatever they're doing," David Klein, a mathematics professor at California State University Northridge, where he participates in the Climate Science Program, told ABC News. - ABC News
Caribbean Fire Corals Survive Global Warming, Diseases, Hurricanes
Peter Edmunds started conducting annual surveys of the marine life off St. John, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, thirty years ago. A 20-meter transect along a reef under the ocean was marked out by a marine biologist from California State University, Northridge. He has taken pictures of the vegetation that grew there every summer, including a 40-meter expanded transect. -- Nature World News
Kitty up a tree? Come along as Canopy Cat Rescue rescues them across Western WA
He noted a 2020 study by the National Park Service and California State University, Northridge which found domestic cat remains in 20% of urban coyotes’ scat. -- The Seattle Times
Colin Carlson Works to Predict and Prevent Viral Spillover
In the meantime, Carlson has kept up several research projects. With Verena colleagues, he recently published a study that used machine learning to predict which bat species host which viruses (Lancet Microbe, doi:10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00245-7, 2022). And separate from the consortium, Carlson has teamed up with Jeremy Yoder, an evolutionary biologist at California State University, Northridge, to investigate relationships between flower symmetry, pollinator behavior, and species extinctions. Yoder says he has been struck by Carlson’s work ethic and dedication, adding that it’s often a challenge “trying to keep up with the pace of his thought.” The pair is now developing new methods for modeling ecological interactions such as plant-pollinator or host-parasite relationships. -- The Scientist