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In Her Own Words: Erika Beck educates thousands as well as her own sons

The pandemic literally brought work home for millions of women but few faced matters of scale as directly as university president Erika Beck. With the responsibility of the education of 40,000 university students, she also juggled sports schedules, pets and, most importantly, the social and educational needs of her two sons. -- BizWomen

Conductive polymer holds promise for the next generation of organic electronics

Artificial intelligence (AI) played a role in developing the material. "You can proceed by trial and error to make a material," Nguyen says. "You can make a whole bunch of them and hope for the best, and maybe one out of twenty works or has interesting properties; however, we worked with a professor at California State Northridge, Gang Lu, who used AI to select building blocks and do calculations to get a rough idea of how to proceed, given the energy level and properties we were aiming for." -- TechXplore

Academy announces partners for Gold Rising program

The program’s production track features online technical work­shops and masterclasses for stu­dents interested in cinematography, costume design, film editing, pro­duction design, sound and visual effects, a category newly added to the program this year. The 31 par­ticipants in this track are from California State University Northridge, Exceptional Minds Academy, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Film School, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, New York Film Academy and select local community col­leges from the Academy’s Community College Film and Media Arts Consortium. -- Beverly Press

Congregation Anshei Israel Hires New Early Childhood Director

Spivak holds a Master of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education from the American Jewish University, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Child and Adolescent Development, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, both from California State University, Northridge. -- Arizona Jewish Post

FWEDA: Cal/OSHA Delivers Blow to Autonomous Tractors with Petition Denial

"We need to move forward with technology and to protect California workers, and those two goals can be worked on together,” said board member and public representative Nola Kennedy, a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at California State University, Northridge. “The data we have and obtain from the experimental variance from Monarch is not the only data in existence.” -- Farm Equipment

Where are the big gifts to your college or university coming from?

Within the report, CASE highlighted a pair of surveys–a previous one on voluntary support of education (VSE) and this one on principal gift giving. It also features a number of individual stories of giving, including how the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., landed a $15 million donation to go toward virtual reality and why donors chose to give $17 million toward the performing arts at the California State University at Northridge. -- University Business

These are the biggest entertainment companies in the K-pop industry

SM Entertainment, founded by Lee Soo-man, played a pioneering role in furthering the Korean wave globally. After graduating with a degree in computer engineering from California State University, Northridge (USA), Lee returned to South Korea and established SM Studio in Apgujeong-dong in Gangnam (Seoul) in 1989. Inspired by the era of MTV, he started his small entertainment company with the aim of managing the careers of artists, train them and even launch new talent. ‘SM’ initially stood for Soo-man, but now, it is short for ‘Star Museum’. -- Lifestyle Asia

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