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UCLA football coaches might be on the move

Sage started his coaching career at Nevada as a graduate assistant in 2003 after finishing his playing career at Cal State Northridge in 2001. -- Redlands Daily Facts

Rocket Scientist and Author Olympia LePoint Introduces New Quantum Deciding Planner

Hailed the "New Einstein" by her fans, and named the "Modern Day Hidden Figure" by People Magazine, Olympia LePoint is an award-winning rocket scientist, author and TED speaker seen by over 26 Million viewers. She gives the TED talk "Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear" which has gained more than 1 Million views. Her Impact Theory episode and related clips has more than 2 Million views. LePoint helped launch 28 NASA Space Shuttle missions into space. Today, LePoint's Mission Control Room desk is a science exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. In her youth, she overcame severe poverty, and failing math scores by reprogramming her brain, which led her to graduate Top 5 from a 6,500 graduating class with advanced degrees in Mathematics from California State University Northridge. -- Benzinga

Infinite Electronics President and CEO Penny Cotner Featured in OC 500 List

Cotner joined Infinite Electronics in 2013 and became president and CEO in 2018. Under her leadership, the company has enjoyed consistently high revenue growth and continued to grow through acquisition. Cotner has more than 25 years of experience in the electronics industry, including early engineering positions at Hughes Aircraft Company and with Rockwell’s Space Station Program, and multiple leadership roles with Fortune 500 global distributor Arrow Electronics. She holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from California State University, Northridge, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. -- PRWeb

Chris Najarro Named Bridge to Home’s New Executive Director

Joining the Bridge to Home team as director of programs in 2017 following a six-year stint as executive director of Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley, Najarro brings an experienced eye to the unique issues leading Santa Clarita Valley residents into homelessness. Combined with her ten years as program coordinator for CalWORKS Support Services at the Child Care Resource Center in Chatsworth, she has a special understanding of the modern-day challenges that can lead a family into poverty and homelessness. She holds a Master of Social Work from University of Southern California with a concentration in Community Organization Business Innovation and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from California State University, Northridge, with a concentration in Social Welfare. -- SCV News

The Top 22 of 2021: #18 – #15

With the retirement of Sky Daniels, keeping the Los Angeles 88.5 simulcast together became a tenuous affair. The station actually posted an RFP, soliciting parties to take over the operation. Before any deal could go down, friend-of-the -format Pat Osburn (formerly KPRI/San Diego) stepped in to solidify the operation. The station ended the year with a .7 and its highest cume ever, at 158,000. -- The Top 22

Household pesticide use harms infant motor development, study shows

In addition to Hernandez-Castro and Bastain, other study authors are Sandra P. Eckel, Thomas Chavez, Mark Johnson, Brendan Grubbs, Shohreh F. Farzan, Rima Habre, and Carrie V. Breton, all of Keck School of Medicine of USC; Deborah Lerner of Eisner Health; Claudia M. Toledo-Corral of Keck School of Medicine and Cal State University Northridge; and Genevieve F. Dunton of Keck School of Medicine and USC’s Department of Psychology. -- Mirage

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