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The LA Times is hiring two staff members for Times Community News
Previously, Nguyen was a news producer at KCRW-FM 89.9, an NPR member station broadcasting from Santa Monica College. From September 2018 to May 2020, he worked as a news production assistant at KNX-FM 1070 in Los Angeles and as a sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Nguyen holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Northridge. --News Live Washington
Memory on Every Corner: L.A.’s First Street Corridor
Southern California has several Filipino enclaves, including West Covina, Carson, Cerritos, and Eagle Rock, but it’s the district just west of Downtown where the Filipino-American community first settled here a century ago. Cal State Northridge Asian American Studies Professor Allan Aquino breaks it down: “Though Filipinos first set foot in California as subjects of the Spanish empire in the late 1500s, the first major immigration wave to California arrived in the 1920s, establishing homes, businesses, and cultural centers near Little Tokyo and Echo Park in the area now known as Historic Filipinotown. This Los Angeles neighborhood, also regarded as “HiFi” or “P-Town,” was so named in 2002 because of its role as an historic gateway for Filipino Americans settling in the United States.” -- Metropolis Magazine
Students wait months for mental health help. 'We're bombarded,' counselor says
“If you have a student in distress, it’s impacting their classmates, their classroom, their teacher,” said Alejandra Acuña, retired associate professor of Social Work at Cal State Northridge. “The student is suffering and so is anybody that cares about the student.” -- Virgin Islands Daily News
‘End Of The Road’s Mychala Lee Raves Over ‘Welcoming’ & ‘Kind’ Co-Star Queen Latifah & More
On top of acting, Mychala is also dedicated to her education. She graduated from Cal State University, Northridge, with a degree in family studies. “My plan is to hopefully maybe one day get my master’s in child psychology because that’s definitely a huge passion of mine and a big need I feel like in my community as a Black woman and also just in our day and age right now,” Mychala. told HollywoodLife. “Children, especially going through this pandemic, not being in school, there’s a lot of struggles and new issues that are coming up. It’s something that I’m really passionate about, and I’m so glad that I went and I finished. It also correlates with acting a lot more than I thought it would. I studied a lot of psychology, a lot of family relations, how people function in relationships, so when I get a character, I can kind of see from it a psychological point as well.” End of the Road is now streaming on Netflix. -- News 84 Media
Powerful Play in L.A. Keeps Spotlight on Maya Massacres in Guatemala
The staging of “Sentado en un Árbol Caído” at the Goethe-Institut was part of “Disrupting the Mainstream,” a retrospective series of 35 years of the Sinergia Grupo de Teatro and three decades of the Frida Kahlo theater–two institutions with which Teatro Akabal has worked with through the years. They all stage works in Spanish and tackle topics affecting immigrants. The Sept. 2 show was preceded by a Maya invocation and followed by a panel of Guatemalan activists and genocide and torture survivors, including Florildama Boj Lopez, an assistant professor at UCLA’s César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies who also holds a master’s degree in Chicana/o Studies from California State University, Northridge. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
CSUN Part of Regional Effort to Streamline the Student Pathways to Careers in Healthcare, Engineering, Computer Science
California State University, Northridge, along with four other CSUs in the area, local community college and K-12 public school districts have formed the Los Angeles Region K-16 Collaborative, which has been awarded approximately $18 million by the state to improve enrollment and degree completion of underrepresented students in fields that lead to increased economic mobility, such as healthcare, engineering and computer science. -- SCV News
CSUN Receives Grant to Encourage Underrepresented Students to Study Physics
Donna Sheng, a California State University, Northridge physics professor who specializes in quantum matter and quantum information science, admitted that trying to explain what she does to lay people can be confusing. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Trump’s Cabinet-in-exile preps 2024 energy playbook
“Developing policy agendas for current and future administrations is something that think tanks have been doing for decades,” said Lauren McDonald, a California State University, Northridge, professor who has studied the role of think tanks in federal policy. -- E&E News
Drs. Dennis and Mary Papazian: An Academic Power Couple
Mary in turn adds: “I think the key is having a shared view of the world, having a shared set of values. I had the benefit that Dennis had already navigated so many of the challenges that I was going to see — that was extraordinarily helpful. We were socializing and talking with his colleagues and friends who were tremendously experienced, such as Blenda Wilson, who was the chancellor at U of Michigan, Dearborn, when Dennis established the Armenian Research Center. Blenda was an extraordinary leader, full of grace, and politically smart. I learned so much from her. [Cal State Northridge, where Wilson was President] was destroyed by an earthquake, and she rebuilt it. Her priority was to make sure the students graduated on time. The last building she rebuilt was the administration building. That has always stayed with me.” -- The Armenian Mirror Spectator
CSUN Grant Encourages Underrepresented Students to Study Physics
Donna Sheng, a California State University, Northridge physics professor who specializes in quantum matter and quantum information science, admitted that trying to explain what she does to lay people can be confusing. -- SCV News