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JAMES EMERSON DENNIS SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED
Dennis served his country in the Air Force, and was a college professor at Cal State-Northridge for 35 years. -- KWHI
CSUN's Daniela Gerson: Putin’s diaspora will echo 1939’s, but going in the opposite direction
My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from eastern Poland, ahead of the Nazis’ occupation. They crossed the River Bug, and found their way to what is today Lviv, Ukraine. -- Los Angeles Times
These California students revealed what they want out of their professors and their education
I certainly never did, but that’s exactly what I asked newspaper students at Cal State Northridge last week when I went for a campus visit. Professor Arvli Ward routinely brings in speakers and has his class of journalism students interview them. (Fun fact — the speaker before me was Susan Orlean, so that wasn’t intimidating at all.) -- Poynter
Local Educators Share Tips From Their Pandemic Experience
Joanna White, director of special education with the William S. Hart Union High School District, and Amy Gaines, special education program specialist with the district, recently had separate articles on just that topic published in T-CARE, the newsletter of the California State University Northridge Center for Teaching and Learning. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
88.5 FM to Host a 24-Hour Celebration for Women’s Day
Northridge, CA, March 07, 2022 --(PR.com)-- The Independent 88.5 FM radio station presents Wonder Women, a 24-hour celebration featuring only female artists for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022. From singer-songwriter, alternative, soul to funk and beyond, the station will be appreciating women trailblazers spanning many music genres.-- PR.com
Ukrainian-Russian tennis duo support each other amid war
LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — Student-athletes Yuliia Zhytelna and Ekaterina Repina didn’t seem to be such a unique paring just a week ago. However, things have changed drastically for these two tennis doubles partners at California State University-Northridge after Russia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine last Thursday. -- 8 News Now
Coming Out at Work May Impact Productivity
“Going to work and not disclosing sexual orientation or some other aspect of your identity that is not obvious visually is a cognitive burden and inhibits how much you feel like you belong,” says Jeremy B. Yoder, a biologist at California State University, Northridge who worked on the study. -- Discover Magazine
Creative Mental Health Collaborations
Kaila Lavin, the director of the Student Recreation Center (SRC) at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), said that’s why marketing, promotion and ensuring a conducive environment are all key elements to getting students to take advantage of the services available to them. -- Campus Rec Magazine
Does Coming Out in a STEM Workplace Have an Imprint on the Scientific Literature?
A study published recently seems to agree with Aich’s experience. It documented results from two surveys undertaken by researchers Joey Nelson, Allison Mettheis and Jeremy Yoder. Nelson is based at Stanford University, Mettheis is at California State University, Los Angeles, and Yoder is at the California State University Northridge. -- The Wire
For LGBTQ scientists, being out can mean more publications
Publication counts aren’t necessarily an ideal metric of productivity, acknowledges study author Jeremy Yoder, an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. “But it is tied to everything from hiring to grant funding to awards and recognition,” he says. “So if you are struggling to publish for whatever reason, that’s going to be linked to challenges in basically every aspect of advancement in academic science. And those things are going to play into people’s decisions whether or not to remain in the field.” -- Science