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Porites reefs, say scientists Peter Edmunds and Robert Carpenter of California State University at Northridge, are among the most sensitive of all corals. Edmunds, Carpenter and Steve Doo of the University of Hawaii published results in the journal Limnology and Oceanography revealing the consequences of ocean acidification. The reefs may not be able to grow and reproduce. -- Phys.org

Workshop presenters will include Ping Ho, Founder and Director of Arts & Healing Initiative and Co-developer of Beat the Odds; Mike DeMenno, Manager of Recreational Music Activities at Remo, Inc. and Co-developer of Beat the Odds; Hilary Yip, Chair of Music Therapy Department at California State University, Northridge; and Cory Hills, multi-percussionist, composer, Grammy Award winning artist, and creator of Percussive Storytelling. -- Pasadena Now

Michelle Gruber, CFP, CRPC, Founder and Managing Partner, has more than two decades of experience in the wealth management industry. With a bachelor’s degree in finance from California State University Northridge, her journey started in a commercial mortgage before she found her stride at UBS Financial Services and later Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, where she spent nearly 15 years. -- Pulse 2.0

Longtime California State University, Northridge lecturer and pioneering civil rights activist, the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., has died, at the age of 95. Lawson was a mainstay of the CSUN campus since 2010. He taught theories and practices of nonviolent activism as part of the Civil Discourse and Social Change initiative, an effort dedicated to promoting ideas of community involvement, as well as social and justice related activism. In the 1960s, Lawson was a close adviser and friend to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and traveled with him to the southern United States to train people in the ways of peaceful protests in the struggle for civil rights. -- SCV News