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World looks to Kiwi thought leadership

“New Zealand needs to think about how we cultivate more technical talent within our universities that aren’t corralled into building a start-up within a university, but instead get those skills and offer them to employers. The only reason why Los Angeles grew so fast as a tech community is because we had the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and California State University, Northridge.” -- Waikato Business News, New Zealand

Research Offers New Insight for Treating Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

An international team of researchers, led by California State University, Northridge (CSUN) biology professor Jonathan Kelber, has identified, for the first time, that the PEAK1 gene can promote cancer metastasis and therapy resistance in aggressive HER2-positive breast cancers. -- AmericanTowns.com

BETYE SAAR

Betye Saar received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1949. She attended California State University at Long Beach, the University of Southern California and California State University at Northridge for her graduate studies. She received honorary doctorate degrees by California College of Arts and Crafts, California Institute of the Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Otis College of Art and Design, and San Francisco Art Institute. -- ArtSpace

Making an all-important connection

Sahakian graduated and moved on to college. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University, Northridge. He has a master’s degree in psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. He also has a doctor of education in Organizational Leadership from Brandman University. -- Antelope Valley Press

‘Everest’ is a new kind of comic opera: drama in the form of a graphic novel

Opera and animation may turn out to be natural companions, and the pandemic has unleashed comparable flurries of inventiveness here and there. On July 2, the San Jose company Opera Cultura released “Mi Camina,” an animated short based on composer Héctor Armienta’s song cycle about California farmworkers that’s available to view through Friday, July 16. At Cal State Northridge, a collaboration among the music, film and animation departments produced a combination live-action and animated production of Puccini’s one-act opera “Gianni Schicchi” that premiered online in May. -- Datebook

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