Clips
17th Annual Celebrating Words Festival Comes to the Vaughn G3 Academy Campus
Educational Components:
Community Mothering Panel by CSUN Ethnic Studies Education Pathways Project,
From Trauma 2 Transformation Art Activation,
OUR VOICE NOW Documentary Premiere
Comics Workshops with Javier Rodriguez -- Broadway World Los Angeles
Envision unveils AI-powered smart glasses for blind and visually impaired
Showcased at a recent conference held at California State University, Northridge, the Envision Glasses uses AI to extract different kinds of information from images and then speak the images out loud, enabling blind and low-vision users to read documents at work, recognize their friends, find personal belongings at home, use public transportation, and generally enjoy greater freedom, independence and understanding of the world around them. -- Inceptive Mind
CSUN Students to Take On Venture Competition For Prizes Totaling Over $100,000
For the first time, students at California State University, Northridge are boldly going where no one has gone before, the CSU Venture Competition, a regional collaboration developed in part by CSUN’s David Nazarian College of Business and Economics. -- SCV News
Laurent Departs CSU to Retire in New Orleans
Dr. Laurent has been both a licensed marital family therapist and a licensed psychologist in the L.A. area for over 30 years. Within those 30 years, he has served as a tenured professor at CSU-Northridge and CSU-Dominguez Hills. -- Los Angeles Sentinel
In the world of L.A. lowriding, a car club plaque serves as a sacred language
AdvertisementThe making of a lowrider plaque is an art form in itself. Clubs carefully select fonts, designs and sizes to stand out from the others. Plaque makers turn this vision into something tangible through afinely honed craft.“You’re customizing it to reflect how you view yourself in the world,” says Denise Sandoval, a professor of Chicano/a studies at Cal State Northridge specializing in lowrider culture and Chicano cultural histories. -- Head Topics
Gilbane Building Company Breaks Ground on CSUN’s Sierra Annex
Gilbane Building Company joined California State University, Northridge administrators and design consultants to break ground on the new 62,000 SF Sierra Annex. The $43.4 million building will be located immediately south of its sister building, Sierra Hall. The groundbreaking event was held on Friday, April 29. -- PRweb
How the Performing Arts World Uses Cyber Analytics to Build Audiences
Over time, the company has expanded to offer consulting services to a number of America’s major performing arts presenters including the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at California State University, Northridge, where Webb works closely with its president, Thor Steingraber. -- San Francisco Classical Voice
2022 Latino Spirit Awards honors trailblazers
Since 1991, Tovar has served as the CEO of the Latin American Civic Association. She will receive an honorary doctoral degree in the Humanities from CSU, Northridge in May. -- Fresno Bee
How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's Mexican Americans
Cinco de Mayo Parade participants pass along a street in Compton, Los Angeles, 1973. | Courtesy of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge, Guy Crowder Collection -- KCET
Staff pictures of the month for April 2022
Rob Greenfield, activist and humanitarian, greets CSUN students on day 8 of 30 days wearing all of his discarded trash on the Cal State Northridge campus Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Greenfield was on hand for Stop Food Waste Day at Cal State Northridge. Students joined millions of peers taking part in the “Grate-Ful” event focused on plant-forward, waste-free, and giveback initiatives. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) -- Los Angeles Daily News