CSUN Educators Listened to Students for Book on How to Be Effective Teachers
A team of CSUN researchers talked to more than 700 students to find out what makes an effective teacher. The results of their study can be found in the new book “Learning from the Learners.” Photo by...
View ArticleBull Ring New Venture Competition Inspires Budding CSUN Entrepreneurs
The annual California State University, Northridge Bull Ring New Venture Competition has returned to campus this spring for the third time. The 2018 contest, hosted by the David Nazarian College of...
View ArticleSteven J. Ross Tells Chilling Story of Nazis’ Rise to Power in LA
In the 1930s, Nazis held a series of meetings to formulate a plan to blow up the homes of more than 20 prominent Jewish figures and actors in Los Angeles, including Charlie Chaplin. A man named Leon...
View ArticleCSUN Orchestra Translates Human Stories Into Music
Nineteen classical musicians — all dressed up in shirts, suits and dresses — packed up their instruments and hiked about half a mile to the middle of Stoney Point in Chatsworth, to play a concert on a...
View ArticleCSUN Alumna Nominated for Global Teacher Prize
When staff at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica see the yellow school bus pull up in front of their theater, they know exactly who will be getting out of it: Hawthorne High School theater students. They...
View ArticleCSUN Alumnus Inspires Young People With Autism to Pursue Self-Fulfillment
Whenever Tom Iland ’08 (Accountancy) walks onstage, he wants to captivate his audience. Usually, that doesn’t take him long — he just shows them a trick. Iland assigns each of the 26 letters in the...
View ArticleDodgers and Campanella Foundations Continue to Support CSUN Physical Therapy...
When Roy Campanella became the first catcher of color in Major League Baseball history in 1948, he had no idea how far his impact would spread. He couldn’t know that he was paving the way for future...
View ArticleCSUN Professor Advances Bee Research With Hives on Campus
Throughout the world, bee colonies have been devastated by a parasite called the Varroa mite. These mites – which are visible to the naked eye – leach on to bees, and have devastated honeybees since...
View ArticleHarambee Conference Inspires Students of Color
More than 300 students, primarily African-American, from 13 different high schools across the Los Angeles area and six schools from Oxnard gathered at California State University, Northridge on Feb....
View ArticleLaverne Cox Draws Full House for AS Big Lecture
Two hours before actress and equal rights advocate Laverne Cox took the stage for the Big Lecture at California State University, Northridge, De’zha Boynton and her friends were first in line, sitting...
View ArticleCSUN’s Acclaimed Department of Music Stays True to the Classics
California State University, Northridge student musicians rehearse with the CSUN Symphony. Photo by Lee Choo. In an era when pop, hip-hop and technology dominate the music world, California State...
View ArticleCSUN Professor Celebrates 22 Years of Engaging Los Angeles Unified School...
(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., March 12, 2018) — California State University, Northridge biology professor Steven Oppenheimer is celebrating 22 years of collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District...
View ArticleLatina Professionals to Inspire and Empower Hundreds of High School Students
Members of Comision Femenil of the San Fernando Valley at the 2015 Annual Adelante Mujer Latina Career Conference. More than 500 Latina high school students will learn about leadership development,...
View ArticleCSUN Has Been Named an Innovation and Prosperity University
California State University, Northridge has been named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). Photo by Lee Choo....
View ArticleCSUN Celebrates Pi Day with Free Pies
To celebrate the significance of pi, an infinite mathematical constant also known as 3.14 and π, the Delmar T. Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge, once again hosted its annual...
View ArticleChandra Subramaniam is New Dean of CSUN’s Nazarian Business College
Chandra Subramaniam is the new dean of CSUN’s David Nazarian College of Business and Economics. He comes to CSUN from the University of Texas at Arlington, where he was interim dean of the business...
View ArticleBest-selling Author Roxane Gay Inspires CSUN Students With Her Personal Story
“The story of my body is not a success story,” said New York Times best-selling author and feminist Roxane Gay, “but a true story.” In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, Gay read...
View ArticleCSUN Alumnus Appointed to Endowed Professorship
When K. Greg Murray ’77 (Biology), M.S. ’79 (Biology) started his education at California State University, Northridge in fall 1972, he had no idea how profound an impact the school would have on his...
View ArticleCSUN Physical Therapy Students Honored at Dodger Stadium
Ten years after becoming the first catcher of color in Major League Baseball, Roy Campanella — Brooklyn Dodger and future Hall of Famer — was injured in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the...
View ArticleStudent Teams Explore Artificial Intelligence in Inaugural CSUN AI-Jam
The winners of California State University, Northridge’s first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) student venture competition — dubbed AI-Jam — were chosen in April at an event that took place at...
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