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CSUN Women’s Basketball Loses 53-52 to UC San Diego Tritons: Erica Adams Leads in Scoring
CSUN Women's Basketball fell to the UC San Diego Tritons 53-52, with Erica Adams leading the Matadors in scoring with 11 points, followed by Laney Amundsen with nine and Talo Li-Uperesa with eight. The game saw UC San Diego leading in the first half, but the Matadors made a strong comeback in the second half. -- BVM Sports
Maria L. La Ganga – Deputy Managing Editor, California and Metro
La Ganga graduated from Granada Hills High School in the San Fernando Valley and Cal State Northridge, where she studied English literature and journalism. She first worked at The Times in 1981 as an academic intern in the Metro section. She has served as Seattle bureau chief, San Francisco bureau chief, edited in the Business section and pitched in on six presidential elections, five for The Times and one for the Guardian. La Ganga left The Times in 2015 and returned in 2018 after a brief hiatus during which she wrote for the Guardian and the Idaho Statesman. -- Los Angeles Times
GBPT Adds Development Director
A graduate of Cal State, Northridge, and an experienced performer herself, Johnson was a key player in the establishment of fundraising processes and infrastructure for the community-based Glendale Arts, 18th Street Arts Center, and was on the development team that managed the successful capital campaign for the newly constructed permanent theater for the Antaeus Theatre Company, Glendale, CA. Now a rooted Berkshire transplant, she's become an active participant in the local business, arts and culture and non-profit networking communities. -- iBerkshires
In a world of earth-toned pottery, her jubilant ceramic clowns spark delight
Soraya Hannah Yousefi didn’t kick off her career with an internship or an entry level position; she began with a box of air dry clay and an Instagram account. It was May 2020 and her life was feeling upside down as she graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in communication studies. -- The Gulf Today
CSUN’s Black Power Archives Bring Attention to L.A.’s Forgotten Role in History
In the land of Hollywood, their stories seem to have been forgotten. Yet their dreams, disappointments, determination and anger help lay the foundation for what we now know as the Black Power Movement. -- SCV News
Solvang, CA Author Publishes Education Study
Dr. Bronte H. Reynolds earned Bachelor's and Masters Degrees from San Francisco State University and a Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He has served as a school teacher, school principal, and superintendent for three California School Districts. He has been a full, tenure track professor for California State University Northridge, teaching in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, and served as Chair of the Department, all accruing to over sixty years of experience as an educational leader. In addition, he has served as President and/or chair for a number of service and non-profit institutions along the way. -- PRLeap
Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Feb. 1-8
Booker T. Jones – 60 Years of Green Onions and the Hammond B-3 – A Soraya Jazz Club concert: Special guest Matthew Whitaker, 8 p.m. Feb. 3. Tickets $59 and up. See the ticket option for dinner. The Soraya at California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St. 818-677-8800. www.thesoraya.org. Jazz Club details: thesoraya.org/en/jazzclub. Concert details and to purchase tickets: tinyurl.com/252f6zbp -- Los Angeles Daily News
No. 17 CSUN Matadors to Face No. 4 Stanford Cardinal in Exciting Weekend Volleyball Showdown
Ranked No. 17, CSUN Men's Volleyball prepares for two matches against No. 4 Stanford Cardinal on Feb. 2 and Feb. 3. The team is coming off a 2-0 week and will face Stanford in a bid to continue its recent success. -- BVM Sports
What a 45,000-year-old pit of bones reveals about our earliest human ancestors
“Finding human remains mixed with animal bones that had been stored for almost a century was an unexpected and fantastic surprise,” Hélène Rougier, a palaeoanthropologist at California State University Northridge, said in a news release. -- NBC News
Abortion Access On Campus
In January 2021 — two years before SB 24 would go into effect — Diana Venegas was three semesters away from graduating from Cal State Northridge. Venegas took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. -- LAist