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Las Vegas Lights FC’s Danny Trejo voted USL Championship Player of the Month

Trejo, who currently leads the league in goals scored and assists tallied, becomes the first ever Lights FC player to earn the USL Championship Player of the Month award. The strong form comes after an injury-plagued 2021 rookie campaign for the Cal State Northridge product, in which he was limited to four goals and one assist in 16 league appearances last year. -- Angels on Parade

Casemore Kirkeby opens 'Considered Interactions'

John Divola received a BA from California State University, Northridge in 1971 and completed his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1974. His career spans four decades and emphasizes the separation of image and reality. His work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Kunstverein Freiburg. His photographs are part of collections including but not limited to the J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fotomuseum Winterthur; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is represented by Office Baroque in Brussels, Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica and Yancey Richardson in New York. -- Art Daily

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Lauren Makk

Lauren’s career in interior design is something that she has been working towards for years. After high school, she went on to attend California State University, Northridge where she earned a bachelor’s degree in interior design. While there, she also joined Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. As one of the Divine 9, AKA is one of the most well-known Black Greek letter organizations. -- TV OverMind

CSUN's Luca Ricci: Studying the Cradle of Planets with ngVLA

The dusty disks that orbit young stars are the cradles of planets. They form along with the star and contain tiny grains of dust floating through huge amounts of gas. Once in a while two or more of these dust grains meet each other and can clump together, paving the way towards the formation of larger and larger bodies, and eventually planets. Since all of this happens in a bath of gas, understanding the physical conditions and motions of the gas is key to understanding how the dust grains move through it, and therefore the dynamics of dust collisions. -- National Radio Astronomy Observatory

The California Studio at UCD wraps up inaugural year with groundbreaking artists

Cortez won the Artadia Los Angeles Award in 2020 and the inaugural Frieze Arto LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize in 2019. Cortez’s solo exhibition “Cosmic Portals” is on view at Pitzer College Art Galleries until April 12. Her work is also exhibited in “FUTURES” at the Smithsonian Arts + Industry Building in Washington, D.C., until July 6. Cortez is a professor in the Department of Central American and Transborder Studies at California State University, Northridge. -- Davis Enterprise

Jolt CU Lands Event Park Naming Rights Deal

The announcement came about two weeks after a Chatsworth, Calif., credit union, the $3.4 billion Premier America Credit Union, inked a naming rights deal with California State University, Northridge. -- Credit Union Times

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