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Eighth Annual Tech Fair Highlights Artificial Intelligence
What if computers could tell the difference between a smile and a smirk? Computer scientist and facial expression recognition researcher Rana el Kaliouby hoped to answer this question at the eighth...
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Honors Convocation Throws Spotlight on Outstanding Graduates
Shawntel Barreiro has known since she was in ninth grade that she wanted to be a linguist, and she has worked hard to fulfill that dream since. She will be graduating later this month from California...
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CSUN’s MARC/RISE Students Receive Prestigious Scholarships to Complete Their...
Academic scholarship applications are a rigorous test for students to compile their achievements and capabilities into a story that catches the eye of the benefactor making the selection. When...
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Hard Work, Determination Pay Off for CSUN’s 2018 Graduates
Many are the first in their families to get a college education. Others have used their experiences in the foster-care system as inspiration to aim for the highest bar. Still others came to California...
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CSUN Deaf Studies Program Integrates Innovative Software into Canvas
Teaching American Sign Language (ASL) can be very difficult on paper. Unlike an English paper, professors can’t simply mark up a student’s fingerspelling. Instead, a teacher of ASL has to physically...
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Fifth Annual Rally in the Valley Draws Crowd of 1,400
The sumo match was about to begin. But this wasn’t just any sumo match — the “wrestlers” were LEGO Mindstorm robots programmed by elementary school students. One team placed its entry, a gray robot...
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Teen Mom Overcomes Odds to Graduate College 20 Years Later
“‘Pregnancy could be a bad influence on other students.’” It was 1998, but Cecilia Montes remembers her high school principal telling her that as if it were yesterday. She was kicked out of her high...
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CSUN’s Entire Inaugural HSI Pathways Cohort Receives Full Funding to...
The goal of California State University, Northridge’s HSI Pathways to the Professoriate is to make the journey to becoming a professor easier to navigate for students, including Latina/o students, in...
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Undocu-Graduation Celebration
California State University, Northridge estimates that there are 1,700 undocumented students on campus. Students, families, faculty and staff celebrated the achievements of undocumented student...
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ER Doctor’s Gift Honors Biology Professor for Changing the Trajectory of Her...
In emergency rooms across the United States, nurses, doctors and hospital staff know never to say the “Q” word. The dreaded word isn’t “question,” “quarrel” or “quick” — it’s “quiet.” It’s a rare time...
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CSUN Accelerated Teacher Program Alum Wants to Serve as Role Model for Male...
Thomas Johnson III knows he’s been lucky to have great mentors — adult role models who taught him how to succeed. After graduating from California State University, Northridge and preparing to embark...
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CSUN Alumni Assist in Writing Opioid Epidemic Paper Presented to the White House
CSUN alumni and the leadership group National Millennial Community (NMC) had the chance to present a paper on the state of the nation’s opioid epidemic to President Donald Trump’s administration....
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Summer Bridge Program Cultivates Future Male Minority Elementary School Teachers
There was a simple question asked to the room of eager students and mentors: “May I teach?” The audience answered confidently: “Teach on.” This question was posed by Darryl McKeller, a teacher with...
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Professor Wins Grant to Take Deaf Students of Color to South Africa
California State University, Northridge Deaf studies professor Lissa D. Stapleton has received a $20,000 grant to take Deaf students of color and Deaf studies majors to Cape Town, South Africa....
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CSUN Launches 2-Year Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities
CSUN is launching a new, two-year, inclusive program this fall, CSUN Explorers, that offers people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to take classes at the university. Photo by Lee Choo....
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CSUN Professor Receives National Award for Teaching Journalism
José Luis Benavides Professor José Luis Benavides has spent the past 15 years building California State University, Northridge’s Spanish-language journalism program into a nationally respected...
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CSUN Receives $60,000 from Hollywood Foreign Press for Student Film Projects
CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison and film professor Nate Thomas arrive at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual grants banquet, where the university was awarded $60,000 to support film...
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CSUN Among Top 15 Universities Awarding Degrees to Minority Students
CSUN ranks among the top universities in the country that award undergraduate degrees to minority students, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Photo by Lee Choo. California State...
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Deans and Department Chairs Gear Up for New Academic Year
California State University, Northridge academic and administrative leaders gathered Aug. 20 to prepare for the 2018-19 academic year — focused clearly on student success and continuing the push to...
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CSUN to Screen Documentary Exploring What it Means to Be Intelligent
Naieer (above) is featured in the documentary, “Intelligent Lives,” which challenges perceptions of intelligence as it follows three individuals with intellectual disabilities as they navigate high...
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