CSUN Marine Biologist Headed to Caribbean to Study Hurricanes’ Impact on...
Hurricanes Irma and Maria cut a devastating swath of destruction across the Caribbean this fall. They upended vegetation, destroyed structures and left thousands of people homeless and without power...
View ArticleCSUN’s Innovative and Entrepreneurial Program Promotes Science, Technology,...
California State University, Northridge’s new entrepreneurial program, Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site Program helps students undertake the challenge of customer discovery, a process that incorporates...
View ArticleCSUN Professor Uses Traditional Foods to Spread Cultural Insight in STEM
The smell of fresh food wafts through the air as students in an introductory-science course quietly read through the day’s lesson. Delicately cut squares of a potato-meat dish, the day’s entree, are...
View ArticleExclusive Matador Marketplace Is Here
Looking to sell an old calculator or buy a bookcase? Matador Exchange is the place to go. This California State University, Northridge exclusive marketplace has just been re-launched by CSUN’s...
View ArticleCSUN Ranked Among Top 10 Schools for Tech Education in Los Angeles
AppJam 2016 gives CSUN students the opportunity to present apps that they have created in a competition that could net them a cash prize for the development of their app. Photo by David Hawkins. When...
View ArticleCSUN Makes Top 10 in North American Sustainable Campus Index
CSUN students and staff plant trees in the Sierra Quad, during the annual Earth Fair in April 2017. California State University, Northridge has earned another stellar ranking from the nation’s largest...
View ArticleBUILD PODER Continues to Fight Inequity at 2017 Youth Empowerment Day
“There are five times more alcohol advertisements in Latino neighborhoods than in white neighborhoods. I think you should know that,” said Johnny, an eighth grader who shared his poster presentation...
View ArticleCSUN Prof Becomes Forensic Ecologist to Assess Reef Damage Left By Hurricanes
Less than 20 feet underwater, California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds could see the damage two back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes — Irma and Maria — had inflicted on the...
View ArticleCSUN Students Identify Tools to Help Scientists Investigate Abnormal Cell...
Thousands of cells develop before any recognizable form of life takes shape. Humans have more than 10 trillion cells, and the number of cells in plants and animals vary species to species. The journey...
View ArticleCSUN Hosts Summit to Help Public Understand “Cryptocurrencies” and Blockchain
One summer night in 2017, accounting and finance student Alula Zeryihun and his friends were sitting around a bonfire when the topic of Bitcoin and “cryptocurrencies” came up. The students had so many...
View ArticleCSUN Astronomy Prof and NASA Colleagues Show Disk Patterns in Space Can Form...
A team of NASA scientists that includes CSUN astronomy professor Wladimir Lyra, has discovered evidence that disk patterns, often indicators of the formation of new planets, can form on their own....
View ArticleCSUN Fostering Culture of Innovation
Students, faculty and staff across California State University, Northridge are taking part in a host of trailblazing programs, initiatives and competitions. From cutting-edge research labs to...
View ArticleOviatt Library Hosts Fourth Annual Open Access Symposium
Open science is a movement to make all scientific research, data and dissemination accessible online to all levels of an inquiring society, including amateurs and professionals. The open science and...
View ArticleThousands to Attend CSUN’s 33rd Annual Assistive Technology Conference in Its...
More than 5,000 people attended CSUN’s annual Assistive Technology Conference in San Diego last year, and the same number of people are expected again this year. Photo courtesy of CSUN’s Center on...
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 ArticleTech Pioneering Alumni Join CSUN Faculty and Students to Highlight Artificial...
CSUN alumni lead groundbreaking teams at Facebook, Amazon’s Alexa and one of the top artificial intelligence pioneers in the tech industry. This spring, these alumni leaders are bringing their...
View ArticleCSUN Looks to the Future with AI Competition for Students
A prominent alumnus, faculty and staff invited California State University, Northridge students to jump into a brave, new world March 2 as the university kicked off its first student venture...
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 ArticleNew Study by CSUN Prof Indicates Helium’s ‘Nanny’ Role in Forming Stable...
Helium has long confounded scientists regarding what role it plays in the formation of stable, solid compounds – the myriad combinations of chemical elements that create all kinds of materials. As a...
View ArticleCSUN Alumnus McNally Discusses Using AI to Help Facebook and Google Fight...
You can’t fight fake news without real people — someone has to review dubious posts to decide on whether the standards of journalistic due diligence were followed. But Michael McNally ’88 (Computer...
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