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CSUN English professor wins literary award
LOS ANGELES >> A coming-of-age novel about a mixed-race boy in the bayous of Louisiana, written by an English professor at Cal State Northridge, is the winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Fiction Award, the organization announced Wednesday. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Local soldier in the Vietnam War to receive the Medal of Honor
Rose enlisted in the Army after taking classes at San Fernando Valley State College, now known as Cal State Northridge. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in general education and military science from Cameron University in 1977, and a master’s degree in communication from the University of Oklahoma. -- My News LA
Top 50 Film Schools of 2017 Ranked, From USC to Full Sail
22. California State University Northridge
You won’t meet as many rich kids at CSUN as you do at some film schools, but some of them will get rich in Hollywood. The school’s rising profile just got bigger with a $2 million grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which paid for this summer’s upgrade of CSUN TV facilities and funded a major diversity initiative. -- The Wrap
Families Invited to Explore Paths to Success at ‘Feria de Educación’
Univision Los Angeles, the California State University Chancellor’s Office and California State University, Northridge are teaming up Saturday, Sept. 23, to help thousands of young Latinos and their families discover paths to success at Feria de Educación, a daylong celebration focused on proving educational resources and information on building blocks for achieving academic and professional success. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
A Head-Spinning, Hope-Inspiring Showcase of Art
What won’t travel, unfortunately, is a raft of worthy and related shows that surround it, among them an exquisite retrospective of the Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino at the Museum of Contemporary Art; a solo by the photographer Laura Aguilar at the Vincent Price Art Museum; a pairing of Chicana painters Judithe Hernández and Patssi Valdez at the Millard Sheets Art Center in Pomona; and, coming in November at California State University Northridge, a career survey of the titanic Judith F. Baca, whose “Great Wall of Los Angeles” mural, begun in the 1970s, is not only still intact but ongoing. -- The New York Times
You don’t need a brain to sleep. Just ask jellyfish
Others, however, agree with the Caltech team. “The authors do a good job of demonstrating that jellyfish fulfill the most fundamental criteria for sleep,” Joiner says. “These data strongly argue for the existence of sleep in Cassiopea,” adds Cheryl Van Buskirk, a geneticist who studies sleep at California State University in Northridge. -- Science Magazine
CSUN’s Martin Pousson Wins PEN’s Literary Award for Fiction
A “fabulist” coming-of-age novel about a queer mixed-race boy in the bayous of Louisiana, written by California State University, Northridge English professor Martin Pousson, has won the 2017 PEN Center USA Fiction Award. -- SCV News
CSUNs Martin Pousson Wins PENs Literary Award for Fiction
A “fabulist” coming-of-age novel about a queer mixed-race boy in the bayous of Louisiana, written by California State University, Northridge English professor Martin Pousson, has won the 2017 PEN Center USA Fiction Award. -- Press Release Point
Eight College Teams Set to Take Part in the Finals of the 2017 Financial Planning Challenge
This year, the following eight teams are advancing to the final rounds at the 2017 FPA Annual Conference, to be held Oct. 2-4 in Nashville:
California State University – Northridge -- Life & Health Advisor
CSUN’s Martin Pousson Wins PEN’s Literary Award For Fiction
A 'fabulist' coming-of-age novel about a queer mixed-race boy in the bayous of Louisiana, written by California State University, Northridge English professor Martin Pousson, has won the 2017 PEN Center USA Fiction Award. -- Public Now