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The Thursday, March 12, 2020 deadline to nominate a colleague or colleagues for consideration of a Recognition of Excellence Award is fast approaching. Make a Nomination Today!
The 54th Annual Staff Service and Recognition of Excellence Awards Event which will take place Thursday, May 7, 2020, provides us the opportunity, through the Recognition of Excellence Awards, to recognize both staff members and teams for outstanding efforts made over the course of the calendar year. Those awards are the:
Descriptions and eligibility criteria, as well as links to the nomination forms, area available at: https://www.csun.edu/enrichment/staff-service-awards
Nominations must be received by Noon, Thursday, Mach 12, 2020.
CSUN has partnered with Kaiser Permanente to introduce you to a new 6-week online wellness challenge: Slam Dunk!
Register by March 5th!
This wellness program will coincide with the excitement of March Madness. Get ready to step to the line, and efficiently improve fitness and nutrition using simple, easy-to-accomplish habits.
You can participate as an individual or organize a 5-player team in 1-on-1 matchups every day. As soon as all team members have registered and accepted your invitation, your team is official and ready to compete. Prizes will be awarded to the top individual and the top team.
This fun challenge runs from Monday, March 9th – Friday, April 17th. Don’t miss out on this free opportunity to achieve a better and healthier lifestyle. Let your March Madness spirit be part of the drive to a healthier life.
Select the Slam Dunk Wellness image to Get Started! Remember to register (you and your team) by March 5th!
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Oviatt Library Entrance
Coleen Barsley, Energy and Sustainability
Take a walking tour of CSUN and learn about campus energy projects and initiatives, led by CSUN’s Energy Manager, Coleen Barsley. Some highlights that will be featured are LED lighting, central plant, and solar arrays.
For more information, please visit the following page: http://bit.ly/CampusEnergyTour.
The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs is offering two dynamic workshops, each twice, to help early and mid-career researchers gain a better understanding of the current funding landscape. Join us! Sessions facilitated by Dr. Jaimee Hoefert, and will take place in Extended Learning University Building, Room EU 101.
This session provides an overview of how to break into the funding landscape as an early-stage researcher and how to establish competitiveness over the course of your career. Discussion will include introduction to early-career specific opportunities.
Date & Time(s): | Registration: |
| Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ |
| Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ |
This session provides an overview of shifting PI demographics at major funding agencies and how mid-career researchers can build competitiveness. Attendees will walk through federal and foundation programs well-suited to mid-career researchers and discuss diversification in grantseeking (including potential alternatives to the NIH R15 mechanism).
Date & Time(s): | Registration: |
| Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ |
| Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ |
| Presenter: Jaimee Hoefert, PhD- Grants Consultant | Jaimee provides Hanover and its Higher Education clients with grant reviews, writing support, and grantsmanship trainings with a focus on the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Prior to coming to Hanover, Jaimee worked as a bench scientist and accumulated experience writing, critiquing, and assembling grants alongside clients and colleagues. She also has over five years’ experience writing about scientific topics for a lay audience and leverages that expertise to help researchers create grant proposals that are both compelling and easily understood. |
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The University Student Union invites you to experience an entertaining art-filled event at our interactive celebration of creativity—All That Art!
Join students and colleagues in the Plaza del Sol, Thursday, March 5, 2020, between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to enjoy tasty food, great music, art supplies giveaways and photo ops with friends! Come learn how the revolutionary pop-artist Keith Haring used his craft to inspire others around the world and express your creativity by making your very own art pieces.
In celebration of the renovation and merger of the Teacher Curriculum Center and Music & Media, you are cordially invited to a grand re-opening event. Light refreshments will be served.
The TCC/M&M is a dynamic space where users can access music recordings, books, and scores, and educational videos, K-12 textbooks, games, and children’s literature in a comfortable and lively setting. Friendly and knowledgeable library employees are eager to welcome users of their collections and services and others looking for study space in a lounge-like or traditionally furnished environment.
Thursday, March 5, 2020 – 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m
Location: TCC/Music & Media, Oviatt Library 2nd Floor, East Wing
For More Information and to RSVP, visit: https://library.csun.edu/
Join Clayton Scott of the Associated Students Sustainability team to learn about which items in the Staples Green Products stand up to the sustainability test, and which items are plain greenwashing. We will also demystify the confusion with the new CSUN three-stream waste system (Mixed Recycling, Organics, and Landfill) by seeing how to properly sort office waste. Last, the workshop will provide advice on how to help your office do its part to make CSUN zero waste by 2025.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 12:00 p.m to-1:00 p.m.
Location: Sustainability Center Conference Room
For more information, please visit the following page http://bit.ly/OfficeRecycle.
The Student Success series continues with this event which will feature several different workshops for faculty and staff that highlight best practices around student success both inside and outside the classroom. Attendees will learn practical strategies that they can employ in their daily work with students and campus community members.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Reception to follow
Location: University Student Union, Grand Salon
More details available at: https://www.csun.edu/student-
Do you want to know more about Educated: A Memoir, next year's Common Read, and have a lively discussion with colleagues from across campus?
Please join us for one of our faculty/staff book discussion groups this Spring. All staff and faculty are invited and welcome to join us as we talk about the issues and themes from the book. Are you interested, but haven't read the book yet? Come anyway - hopefully you'll be even more inspired to read it after attending.
We currently have five discussions scheduled:
For more information, additional dates as they're added, or how to obtain your free copy of Educatedto discuss with students, visit: https://www.csun.edu/undergraduate-studies/academic-first-year-experiences/educated-faculty-and-staff-resources/.
To RSVP for any of these sessions, please email Kelly Kroeker at kelly.kroeker@csun.edu or call AFYE at x6535.
Join us for our Pi Day Celebration where you will have the opportunity to do hands-on pi (and pie) themed activities. Watch as CSUN Clubs show off some of their work, and network with students, staff, faculty, local educators, and STEM professionals. The networking portion of the event will be composed of activities, presentations, and appetizers. Stop by for a few minutes or a few hours.
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Clubs, Games, Prizes + Pie
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Networking Mixer (Golden Road Brewing will be serving up some of their finest creations!)
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:30 p.m to 8:00 p.m.
Location: University Student Union, Grand Salon
Sponsors: Bonita J. Campbell WISE Endowment, Oviatt Library, The Marilyn Magaram Center, CSUN College of Science and Mathematics, CSUN College of Engineering & Computer Science, Golden Road Brewing
RSVP: https://library.csun.edu/events/pi-day-2020 This Event Has Been Cancelled
CSUN GET ACTIVE is a new free health and wellness opportunity for staff and faculty of all fitness levels. With an initial personal training component, participants will learn how they can be active ON CAMPUS every day to gain strength and improve their health. The program, designed by 3 WINS Fitness and Steven Loy from the Kinesiology Department, will meet the national physical activity guidelines for Americans which have been shown to result in a 33% lower risk of all-cause mortality (heart disease, cancer and more).
The time to get active is now! Wear your walking shoes for this event.
March 12, 2020 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
HR Training Room, OV-16
For more information and to attend, visit: CSUN Get Active
Join the Michael D. Eisner Center for Teaching & Learning Schools First Federal Credit Union "Education on the Edge Speaker Series", on March 12, 2020 featuring Dr. Lisa Dieker: Current and Future Technology Innovations in Teacher Education and Student Learning.
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Effective immediately and through Sunday, April 19, 2020, or until further notice, attendance at all CSUN home athletic events will be limited to: participating student-athletes; coaches; officials; other essential personnel as designated by CSUN Athletics (i.e. team personnel, medical team, game management staff); and, credentialed media. For more information, visit: gomatadors.com
Presented By:
CSUN Athletics
Description:
Reminder: Check GoMatadors.com for schedule (date/time) updates!
The Spring 2020 Faculty & Staff Series includes eight home events on campus. For attending four of the eight designated games, participants will receive a CSUN Athletics pullover or sweatshirt.
CSUN Faculty and Staff members will receive complimentary admission to each game and are invited to bring up to three additional guests. All CSUN Faculty and Staff members are eligible to participate by checking in at each game using their CSUN ID. The Athletics Department will have a separate check-in area for participants at each venue in order to track attendance. Premium giveaway items may also be made available for each game, as applicable, at the Faculty & Staff Series check-in table while supplies last.
For more information regarding the CSUN Faculty & Staff Series, please contact Associate Athletics Director for Marketing, Branding and Fan Development Dawn Ellerbe at dawn.ellerbe@csun.edu or by calling (818) 677-3215.
Spring 2020 Faculty & Staff Series Options
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Effective immediately and through Sunday, April 19, 2020, or until further notice, attendance at all CSUN home athletic events will be limited to: participating student-athletes; coaches; officials; other essential personnel as designated by CSUN Athletics (i.e. team personnel, medical team, game management staff); and, credentialed media. For more information, visit: gomatadors.com
Presented By:
CSUN Athletics
Description:
Reminder: Check GoMatadors.com for schedule (date/time) updates!
The Spring 2020 Faculty & Staff Series includes eight home events on campus. For attending four of the eight designated games, participants will receive a CSUN Athletics pullover or sweatshirt.
CSUN Faculty and Staff members will receive complimentary admission to each game and are invited to bring up to three additional guests. All CSUN Faculty and Staff members are eligible to participate by checking in at each game using their CSUN ID. The Athletics Department will have a separate check-in area for participants at each venue in order to track attendance. Premium giveaway items may also be made available for each game, as applicable, at the Faculty & Staff Series check-in table while supplies last.
For more information regarding the CSUN Faculty & Staff Series, please contact Associate Athletics Director for Marketing, Branding and Fan Development Dawn Ellerbe at dawn.ellerbe@csun.edu or by calling (818) 677-3215.
Spring 2020 Faculty & Staff Series Options
Friends of the Oviatt Library and Tseng College invite you to a presentation by Gary Powers, Jr., author of Letters from a Soviet Prison (2017) and Spy Pilot (2019).
The downing of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960 is one of the most talked about events of the Cold War. As the famed pilot’s son, Gary Powers, Jr. has written Spy Pilot with acclaimed historian Keith Dunnavant to present the facts and dispel misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that his father was part of.
For more Information and to RSVP, visit: https://library.csun.edu/
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Jack & Florence Ferman Presentation Room, Oviatt Library Garden Level
CSUN has set a goal to be “zero waste” by 2025. What does that mean and how will we get there?
This workshop facilitated by Nikhil Schneider and Austin Eriksson of Energy and Sustainability will shed light on the new three-stream waste system (Mixed Recycling, Organics, and Landfill), by seeing how to properly sort waste. We will also provide strategies on how to help your department do its part to help CSUN reach this goal.
Wednesday, March 25 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Join via Zoom: https://csun.zoom.us/j/394596745
For more information, please visit the following page http://bit.ly/CSUNZeroWaste.
This event has been canceled.
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 (rain or shine), newly admitted students will visit our campus to see all that we have to offer, including our highly spirited staff and faculty members.
Student Outreach & Recruitment would be honored if you would help us welcome new students, share your school spirit and show incoming classes what being a Matador is all about. We’re currently looking for multiple faculty and staff volunteers for the following roles as well as to assist where you’re needed most:
Volunteers can sign up for two-hour shifts from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and are welcome to work more than one shift. The deadline is Monday, March 16. For more details about role descriptions and to sign up, visit the Explore CSUN volunteer page.
We also encourage you to download and share the accessible Explore CSUN volunteer flyer with your colleagues and students. If you have questions, please contact Mandy Fontaine at (818) 677-5685. Hope to see you there!
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Saturday, March 28, 2020 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Institute Sustainable Garden Education Center
Facilitated By:
Dr. Natale Zappia, Institute for Sustainability
Description
Join us for a garden workday event! While volunteering, you will learn about organic food gardening techniques while maintaining the grounds by planting, watering, pulling weeds, and harvesting food. Keep in mind that you may get dirty, so please wear appropriate clothing and shoes. Bring a hat, sunscreen and a reusable water bottle. Please meet us at the CSUN Food Garden, just south of Northridge Academy High School and west of the tennis courts, at your scheduled time! Please make sure to bring your liability waiver, time sheet, and complete the Pre-Volunteer Survey. Our workday will be led by Dr. Natale Zappia.
For more information, please visit the following page http://bit.ly/SpringGarden20.
CSUN invites ALL students to participate in the “Matador Moments: First Year Stories" Challenge. We know that the first year of college is memorable - so use that memory to make a difference in the lives of our incoming freshman class and future generations of Matadors. Inspire an incoming Matador to discover a CSUN connection by telling your story about an experience during your first year that contributed to your success.
The best shared Matador experience will be awarded a $100 CSUN MataMoney gift card.
You can view last year's First Prize video, here.
Encourage your students to check it out today! Deadline is March 30th! More information available at: https://www.csun.edu/it/portfolium-challenges
Join colleagues from the Chancellor's Office and throughout the CSU to talk Change Management. Whether your certified or just exploring, drop in on an online meeting! The next zoom meeting will be held April 16, 2020.
CSUN launched its Zero Waste Plan in 2019 to help drive the campus towards the ambitious waste reduction goals of both the State of California as well as the California State University System. The Zero Waste Plan outlines dozens of strategies that will push the campus to eliminate 95% of its landfill-bound waste, and addresses procurement, operations, policy and infrastructure. Check out this video and visit our Zero Waste website to learn more.
Over 50% of the material CSUN sends to the landfill could be diverted through recycling or composting efforts. One of the major initiatives we have launched in alignment with the Zero Waste Plan is the deployment of new three-stream zero waste clusters, which have separate bins for landfill, recycling and food waste. These new clusters give every Matador the opportunity to place their waste into the proper receptacle. Learn more about what materials should be placed in which bins here.
The Matadors Rising' Student Success Champions program invites students to tell us who has helped them along the way as a student at CSUN. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to nominate a faculty or staff member who has contributed to their success.
All participants who share their story will be invited to attend a celebration in April along with their success champion. Questions? contact Dr. Cheryl Spector at CSUN, x6535 or by email.
For more information, select the image below or visit here. Nominations are due Thursday, April 2, 2020 by 11:59 p.m, and must be submitted using the nomination form. 
