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Seniors Build Up CSUN’s Engineering Trophy Case
Promise, passion and purpose hung heavy in the air at the Northridge Center at California State University, Northridge’s University Student Union on May 8. Perhaps it was the anticipation of...
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Bechtel Grant Provides CSUN Profs New Look at Tech in the Classroom
Reading from a science textbook alone will not adequately prepare the next generation of citizenry with needed 21st century skills according to two California State University, Northridge professors....
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Pick My Solar, an LACI@CSUN Company, Captures Outstanding Small Business Award
One of the fastest-growing industries in the world is the solar energy field. It’s fitting, then, that the CSUN-based, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) firm Pick My Solar would reach such great...
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Student Innovation Fellows Bring the Future to CSUN
Innovation is the key to success in a new millennium. At California State University, Northridge, two students are helping lead this movement by encouraging their peers to succeed in the workforce....
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CSUN’s Tech Fair Explores Emerging Trends and Technologies
The Division of Information Technology invites faculty and staff to join them on Thursday, May 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Student Union’s Grand Salon to learn about the latest tech...
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New Tech Tools Examined at CSUN Event
Cross-institutional collaboration, hybrid/blended learning and redesigned or “flipped” classrooms are among some of the trends in technology in higher education shared at California State University,...
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CSUN Engineering Students Race to the Finish Line
The air is filled with the smell of gas, hot metal, cleaning solution and new rubber tires. Sparks fly, as blocks of metal are molded into solenoids, shafts, gears and carbon fiber wheels. In this...
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Matadors’ Bridge Building Team Places at Regionals and Wows at Nationals
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) team at California State University, Northridge has traveled from Los Angeles to Tucson to Kansas City, showcasing the steel bridge that they built as a...
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CSUN Engineering Students ‘Bull’ Their Way to a Championship
Erik Wagner held his breath as El Toro entered the outdoor obstacle course. A California State University, Northridge mechanical engineering senior, Wagner and 17 other students were representing CSUN...
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CSUN’s Marine Biology Department Puts the Field in Field Trip
From salt marshes to Catalina Island, deep-sea fishing and day trips to the Aquarium of the Pacific, California State University, Northridge’s biology department is continually coming up with new and...
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CSUN’S Experimental Mechanics Lab Creates the Future
Mechanics is something we may not all understand, but it is universal to our everyday experiences. For example, the pushing of rubber on an asphalt road by using oil and metal as force for a car is...
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CSUN Biology, Kinesiology Profs Show Benefits of Exercise Through Rat Studies
Hidden behind imposing laboratory doors, a militia of rats are lifting weights on miniaturized bench presses and running on mini treadmills. Scientists are scribbling notes and analyzing the rats’...
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CSUN Fosters STEM Education Through JPL Collaboration, Texas State University...
To some, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields are a bit too hairy to cross over to from the humanities. For others, STEM education is a dream that is just out of reach. At...
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CSUN Atmospheric Chemistry Prof Highlights Effects of Sea Spray, Brown Carbon...
What is in the air surrounding the Earth? What makes city smog brown, or beaches cloudy? Or importantly, what impact do these substances have on global climate change? At California State University,...
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CSUN Biology Prof Paves Way for Future Breast Cancer Treatments
Imagine breast cancer as cells hidden in an invisible house — a house whose blueprints researchers have been hunting for decades. Now imagine suddenly discovering a key support wall for this house, a...
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CSUN Prof Receives $1.3 Million NASA Grant to Search for Ties Between Earth...
CSUN biology professor Rachel Mackelprang in Alaska. Photo provided by Rachel Mackelprang. As the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) uses Mars rovers to search for extraterrestrial life...
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CSUN 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...
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CSUN Teams With Portfolium to Offer Matador-Centric Job Hub
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when prospective employees would have to mail their resumes or work samples to a hiring manager. Read our profile of NPR host A Martinez’s rise to fame for...
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CSUN 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,...
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CSUN 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...
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