New Faculty Welcomed at Annual Orientation
When Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management faculty Maryam Tabibzadeh completed California State University, Northridge’s New Faculty Orientation (NFO) last week, she felt like...
View ArticleCSUN Hosts First UNAM Film Workshop
As a child growing up in Mexico City, Tamara Romo dreamed about Hollywood. She went to the movies three times a week to see American-made movies with Spanish subtitles. Romo’s dream came true this...
View ArticleFreshman Convocation Rallies New Students to Work Toward Bright Futures
Remember being a freshman on a new, enormous university campus and thinking, “I have a long way to go before I graduate?” For more than 5,000 freshmen at California State University, Northridge, the...
View ArticleSeven CSUN Alumni Among Inaugural LAUSD “Rookie” Teachers of the Year
The first year of classroom teaching is a bit like Army bootcamp: Newbies face months of sleep deprivation, inconvenient illnesses and long, grueling days, not to mention the fear of failure. Those...
View ArticleCSUN to Help Digitize 10,000 Documents, Oral Histories Relating to WWII...
California State University, Northridge will help the CSU digitize 10,000 documents and 100 oral histories related to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The CSU...
View ArticleFreshman Convocation Urges Students to Connect With Campus Community
Freshmen should not let others define who they are, urged author David Levithan, the keynote speaker on Sept. 10 at California State University, Northridge’s Freshman Convocation, an annual event that...
View ArticleCSUN’s Oviatt Library Receives Grant to Promote Local Latino/a History
The Delmar T. Oviatt Library grant winners. Photo by David J. Hawkins. Through a joint grant from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the California State...
View ArticleCSUN to Host Event Celebrating the Success of Historical Atlas Produced in...
How well do you know Los Angeles? Officials at California State University, Northridge’s Center for Southern California Studies (CSCS) and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences are curious....
View Article10 Years After Graduation, CSUN Alumni Earn $16,000 More Than Their...
Graduates celebrating at of California State University, Northridge’s 2014 commencement ceremonies. Photo by Lee Choo. Graduates from California State University, Northridge earn more than $64,000...
View ArticleCSUN Student Appointed to Executive Board of the National Society of Black...
Noral Walker at the NSBE 41st Annual National Convention, March 2015. Photo courtesy of Walker. California State University, Northridge student Noral Walker wants engineering to be a household name...
View ArticleCSUN Lecture to Explore How Technology Can Transform the Classroom
Karen Cator, president and CEO of Digital Promise and a leading voice for transforming American education through technology. How can schools close the digital learning gap? That question and others...
View ArticleCSUN Fills the Minority Gap in STEM Research
From Left: Luis Reyes, Brenda Velasco, professor MariaElena Zavala and Kimberly Arellano A little more than 56 percent of all doctoral students in the United States attain a Ph.D. within 10 years,...
View ArticleCSUN Brings Mathematics Research to Local Community Colleges
CSUN mathematics professor Helena Noronha sits in her office. She is heading the Research Experience in Community Colleges project. Photo by Luis Garcia. For many students, community college is an...
View ArticleCSUN Tapping Technology to Accelerate Student Success
Commencement 2015. Photo by Lee Choo. California State University, Northridge administrators and student advisers this fall are harnessing technology to shine a light on student academic performance...
View ArticleCSUN Celebrates the 46th Anniversary of the Africana Studies Department
California State University, Northridge’s Department of Africana Studies will celebrate its 46th anniversary next month with a series of events, including a discussion led by the Rev. Zedar Broadous,...
View ArticleCHIME Marks 25 Years of Providing an Inclusive Education to All Children
Children studying hard at the CHiME Institute’s K-8 school. The institute is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Photo by Lee Choo. It started out as an idea from a couple of California State...
View ArticleDuo Takes Reins as Interim Deans: Mike Curb College and Health and Human...
Three years ago, California State University, Northridge professors Tami Abourezk and Dan Hosken, by happenstance, began the same career journey as associate deans in the College of Health and Human...
View ArticleCSUN Spreads Awareness of Deaf People Across Different Communities
California State University, Northridge, one of the nation’s leading universities in deaf studies, will host a conference on social inequalities and the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community on Friday,...
View ArticleCSUN to Host Fifth Annual Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Summit
California State University, Northridge will help shine a light on suicide by hosting the fifth annual Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Summit, “The Power of Our Voice: Hope, Help & Healing for High...
View ArticleNew Career Center Space Blooms in Bayramian Hall
(L-R) Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Yi Li, Career Center Director Anne Morey, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students William Watkins, and Associate Vice President...
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