Clips
NCAA men’s volleyball: UCLA tops USC again; LBSU beats UH again; Penn St. clinches EIVA
The only other match had No. 9 UC San Diego (12-8, 4-3) sweeping at CSUN (6-11, 1-5) as the Tritons hit .356 in the 25-19, 32-30, 25-22 victory. UCSD, which had six aces and 15 errors, got 14 kills from Kyle McCauley and 13 each from Wyatt Harrison and Ryan Ka, who had three aces. CSUN hit .244 and had six aces and 13 errors. -- Volleyball Magazine
Classroom 911
Wendy Murawski, executive director and Eisner Endowed Chair at the Center for Teaching & Learning at California State University, Northridge, said that any expectations about tardiness and associated repercussions should be documented in advance in class syllabi, which act as “contracts” between students and faculty members. -- Inside Higher Ed
Startup’s Model Tackles Electric Truck Adoption
What will be interesting to watch, according to Amir Gharehgozli, an associate professor at California State University – Northridge’s David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, is how well the startup will mesh with other states if it can expand its infrastructure. -- Los Angeles Business Journal
These Monkeys' Taste For Boozy Fruit Could Explain Why Humans Love Alcohol, Too
"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," says primatologist Christina Campbell from California State University, Northridge. -- Science Alert
Humans may have inherited a love of alcohol from monkeys
In 2014 Robert Dudley, a professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley wrote a famous book proposing the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis of how humans’ attraction to alcohol emerged and evolved. According to Dudley, our love of alcohol arose millions of years ago, when our ape and monkey ancestors discovered that the scent of alcohol led them to ripe, fermenting, and highly nutritious fruits. A new study, in which Professor Dudley collaborated with primatologists from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), provides further evidence that this hypothesis may be true. -- Earth.com
‘Winning Time’ Fact Check: Kareem vs. Magic, Baby Kobe Bryant and a Career-Ending Accident
That’s where Abdul comes in. In 1980, the 18-year-old former cheerleader beat out 700 other girls to earn a spot on the team during her freshman year at California State University Northridge. Within a year, she became head choreographer of the dance team. Four years later, the Jacksons came to the Forum for a Lakers game and asked Abdul to start choreographing their music videos. That led to jobs choreographing for the likes of Janet Jackson, Duran Duran and ZZ Top. In 1986, she quit the Lakers to pursue her singing career, and the rest is history. -- The Wrap
Successful onboarding is the key to employee retention
Lamontagne is the people success leader for North America at Unit4, a Netherlands-founded HR tech firm. With almost a decade of HR experience under her belt, the New York native has demonstrated the ability to cultivate relationships at all levels of an organization, including leadership, mid-management and employees. She earned a bachelor's degree in business management from California State University, Northridge and a doctorate in psychology from Phillips Graduate University in Chatsworth, CA. -- HRD California
Lots of March Goodness: Concord/Revisited, NOVA Chamber Music Series, Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, How Flowers Bloom, Échale Ganas: The Villa’s Tacos Story
Villa, a master of Instagram (the business has 34,500 followers) and other social media platforms, stayed afloat during the pandemic with a huge online business. A graduate of California State University at Northridge, Villa decided to break out of the pack in the business with his family-inspired interpretation of the estilo Los Ángeles taco – a seven-layer creation. Memo Torres at the L.A. Taco website, which is a great intelligence resource for taco lovers in the city, described Villa’s creation as: -- The Utah Review
What is aphasia? Behind the brain disorder that has affected Bruce Willis
“People with aphasia are intellectually intact,” said Michael Biel, an associate professor of communication disorders at Cal State Northridge. Their “mental competency is hidden by this disability. ... It’s quite easy for people with aphasia to be stigmatized as less than mentally competent.” -- Los Angeles Times
CCSI: Coral Crime Scene Investigation
Georgios Tsounis, a marine ecologist at California State University, Northridge, who was not involved with the study, says that Coral-ID, which can identify precious coral objects in a relatively non-destructive fashion, is “a breakthrough in precious coral management.” He views the genetic test as one part of a multifaceted approach to bolster precious coral conservation, with the potential to make policy measures that rely on proper taxonomic identification easier to implement. -- Hakai Magazine