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A year after finishing her run as Gabrielle Solis in "Desperate Housewives" in 2012, Eva Longoria walked across the stage at California State University Northridge, where she earned a master's degree in Chicano and Chicana studies. Longoria, who also had a lengthy career on soaps like "General Hospital" and "The Young and the Restless" before enrolling at Northridge, completed a thesis titled, "Success STEMs From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM Careers" as part of her degree. (Hell to the yas.) -- StyleCaster

Bundtzen has earned several awards, including Los Angeles Unified School District Teacher of the Year 2000, the 2013 Campbell Women of Distinction, and the 2014 Special Education Administrator of the Year award from the Association of California School Administrators. She holds degrees in Sociology, Education and Administration from California State University, Northridge. -- Campbell Patch

Hélène Rougier does not share Shipman’s assurance. The California State University, Northridge, anthropologist says the similarities between the incisions and known art from the era as well as the fact that the engraver was aware they were consuming and decorating another human, make interpreting the cuts as ceremonial behavior tempting. “But other hypotheses cannot be definitely dismissed,” she wrote in an e-mail. For instance, the carving might have been a spur-of-the-moment decision, she says. Maybe the arm bone was actually engraved for functionality, not as a ritual, suggests Paul Pettitt, an archaeologist at Durham University in England. With the pointy tip such a fractured fragment would likely produce, this bone might have been used to puncture other materials. If so, “certainly these would have been used in tasks that were somewhat messy,” he says. Like grooves on a bike handle, deep carvings enhance grip. And because Bello compared her bone with animal bones and antlers that also have been interpreted as tools, this possibility cannot be ruled out, he notes. -- Scientific American

"I had no idea what it meant," says Des Lauriers, now a professor at California State University (Cal State) in Northridge. Curiosity piqued, he returned for a test excavation and sent some shell and charcoal for radiocarbon dating. When Des Lauriers s adviser called with the results, he said, "You should probably sit down." The material dated from nearly 11,000 to more than 12,000 years agoonly a couple thousand years after the first people reached the Americas. -- Newscaf