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Se graduará de criminóloga en EUA tras huir de la violencia
La joven sampedrana se titulará este año con excelencia en la California State University Northridge tras mucho esfuerzo. -- La Prensa, Honduras ( in Spanish)
CSUN 2022 Distinguished Alumni Include Nigro, Ridloff, Weaver
Fred Nigro, Lauren Ridloff and Keith Weaver will be honored as recipients of California State University, Northridge 2022 Distinguished Alumni Awards. -- SCV News
Board votes to ban critical race theory in Placentia-Yorba Linda school district
Montaño, a professor at Cal State Northridge, said that critical race theory is not discussed in K-12 classrooms, but discussions of race remain an important subject matter for all children. -- Los Angeles Times
La hipótesis del mono borracho y por qué a los seres humanos nos gusta el alcohol
Ahora un nuevo estudio dirigido por la primatóloga Christina Campbell de la Universidad Estatal de California en Northridge -CSUN- y su estudiante de posgrado Victoria Weaver, apoya la que Dudley bautizo como la hipótesis del mono borracho. Para ello, las autoras recolectaron y analizaron las frutas consumidas y desechadas por los monos araña de manos negras -Ateles geoffroyi- de Panamá. Los resultados de su investigación se publican esta semana en la revista Open Science de la Royal Society bajo el título Dietary ethanol ingestion by free-ranging spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Entre estos, Cambell y su alumna encontraron que la concentración de alcohol en la fruta consumida por los monos araña de manos negras contenían entre el 1% y el 2% de alcohol en volumen; un subproducto de la fermentación natural de las levaduras que metabolizan el azúcar de la fruta madura. -- National Geographic, Spain (in Spanish)
CSUN event puts focus on electric vehicles amid soaring gas prices
Car show and roundtable discussion of energy issues planned Thursday at CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability. In-person attendees will be able to test-drive vehicles. Workshop also available via Zoom. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Your primate ancestors may be the reason humans love alcohol, study says
The study published last month revealed findings that support the “drunken monkey hypothesis.” It was led by professor Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge and her graduate student Victoria Weaver. -- Fresno Bee
WILD MONKEYS LOVE CRACKING OPEN A COLD ONE WITH THE BOYS
And according to new research, this has nothing to do with human influence: Monkeys in the wild constantly get wasted on their own. “For the first time, we have been able to show, without a shadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit-containing ethanol,” said primatologist Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge, in a press release. The study follows up on the work of University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley, who published “The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis” in 2000 and was involved in the recent experiment. The theory originally proposed that “patterns of alcohol use by humans in contemporary environments may thus reflect a maladaptive co-option of ancestral nutritional strategies.” -- Mel Magazine
April 7: CSUN to Host Electric Car Show
California State University, Northridge is hosting an electric vehicle car show and roundtable discussion on the future of such vehicles on Thursday, April 7. The day will begin at 11 a.m. with the car show on the grounds of CSUN’s Institute for Sustainability, with the discussion scheduled to take place at noon over Zoom and in person at the university’s Sustainability Center. -- SCV News
CSUN Prof Emeritus Roger Carasso: Elections are a fight between the 'spineless' and the 'shameless'
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, urged Republican leader Mark Meadows to illegally overturn national election results that favored the Democrats and seated President Joe Biden. Federal statutes require justices to recuse themselves from cases where their impartiality could be questioned. But there is no specific means to enforce this statute, which is why Justice Thomas can ignore it, including the actions of his wife. He already has failed to disclose his wife’s income from political groups, although he amended this after being exposed. -- Santa Fe New Mexican
‘Drunken monkey theory’ suggests humans inherited a taste for alcohol from primates
Even if you personally abstain from beer, whiskey, and everything in between, there’s little denying others still have the evolutionary taste for booze. People drink on holidays to celebrate, on happy occasions to remember, and during bad times to forget. This latest study, by primatologist Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and her graduate student Victoria Weaver, collected and analyzed fruit eaten and discarded by black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Panama. -- Study Finds