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CSUN Team Works To Design Innovative Food-Growth System
After completing the second round of the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition conceived to create novel and game-changing food technologies or systems for long-duration space missions, an interdisciplinary team of California State University Northridge faculty, staff and students are working to transform their space-based farming system to benefit people on Earth. -- SCV News
CSUSB, UCR rated high for social mobility
Cal State Los Angeles ranked first, followed by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Florida International University, and Cal State Northridge. California colleges and universities accounted for 70 percent of the top 20 spots. -- IE Business Daily
They came from outer space!
In the 2009 film, Kirk and company meet each other at Starfleet Academy. If you’re a Cal State Northridge alum, you’ll recognize the academy’s exterior as the CSUN library. -- Santa Barbara News-Press
Black borrowers, leaders react to Supreme Court’s student debt relief rejection
DeVeaux, a professor at California State University, Northridge, holds four degrees — a bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees and a doctorate — all of which she self-financed through student loans. DeVeaux said she originally took out $70,000 in federal student loans, but after interest she owed $110,000. -- The Bay State Banner
El Tráfico Breaks Attendance Record As Galaxy Tops LAFC 2-1
George Sanchez, a professor at Cal State Northridge, has attended El Tráfico twice, once at the Galaxy home stadium in Carson and another time in downtown Los Angeles at what’s now BMO stadium. When asked what it’s like to be in the stands for the match, Sanchez, 45, said, “it's just fun no matter what. Whether you are a neutral or an ultra member of a supporters group or there with your family, it's just a lot of energy.” -- LAist
Inglewood Planning Commission to consider distance requirements for fast-food restaurants
“I applaud the local government’s effort to improve the food landscape for the health of the citizens of Inglewood. It’s more than others city councils are willing to do,” said Dr. Steven Graves, Professor of Geography, who studies public health issues at California State University, Northridge -- 2Urban Girls
CSUN professor Beatriz Cortez returns from the Arctic, to a $50,000 honor
An artist and a cultural and literary critic, Cortez receives grant from U.S. Latinx Art Forum -- Los Angeles Daily News
Employers Benefitted from Affirmative Action. It’s Time to Step Up.
This is the approach that the philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has been pursuing. She has flooded colleges such as Cal State Northridge, Lehman College, Florida International University, Prairie View A&M University and Whittier College with millions of dollars to recruit and support students in need. Corporate leaders need to take that as inspiration, and rethink what prestige means. (And with the rise of generative A.I., technology companies have an additional opportunity: to provide colleges with free technology to help them recruit, retain and support the next generation.) -- The New York Times
Gumbo Clay Fest
Guest artists include Clarion University’s Gary Greenberg; Patsy Cox, Professor of Visual Art at California State University-Northridge; Danielle Weigandt, a paper clay artist working in Utah; Stephen Wolochowicz, an Ogden, Utah artist who specializes in abstract industrial shapes with organic features; and Steven Erickson, a New York-based artist working with large-scale clay construction. More guest artists will be announced. -- The Examiner
Woman’s Club of South Pasadena Scholarship Awards
The winners will be attending these institutions and majoring in the following fields: California State University, Northridge (CSUN) (Broadcast Journalism); Emerson College & Paris College of Art (Film & Cinematic Arts); Sarah Lawrence College (English); University of California, Irvine (UCI) (undeclared); University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Applied Mathematics and Economics); University of California, Riverside (UCR) (Business); and the University of Minnesota (Nursing). -- South Pasadena News