“Look up at the building and observe the windows,” College of Science and Mathematics Dean Jerry Stinner urged biology alumni, community members and other celebrants at the mid-April grand opening. The window placement, he explained, represents a kind of scientific/architectural “in joke”: their meticulous arrangement represents a DNA fingerprinting pattern on an electrophoresis gel.
In the heart of French Polynesia, a motor boat glides across a crystal lagoon, stopping at the bay’s perimeter. As the vessel rocks gently in the subsiding wake, a handful of university scientists gear up for a dive into the shallow depths. The less experienced students among them, dazzled by the treasure below, wrestle on their scuba equipment, eager to explore the ridge of colorful marine life that stretches like a jeweled necklace around the mountain island of Moorea.
Damaged hearts regenerate. Paralyzed children run again. The blind regain vision, and cancer is eradicated.
The Cal State Northridge biologist has shepherded nearly 50 CSUN students through MARC, the National Institutes of Health-funded program designed to give minority students the mentoring and research experience needed to compete in the sciences at the graduate level. The overwhelming majority have entered advanced degree programs.
Trust us. Webb is not normal. Since graduating from Cal State Northridge in 1970, he has taken a path few others have even attempted, and he’s done it 12 times in a row, more than any save two, and at a season in life when a slower pace seems a not unreasonable expectation.
One of America’s best-loved past Presidents, two famously thwarted lovers and a honky tonk-rockabilly-bluegrass-psychedelic country rock band will take the stage—not simultaneously, mind—during the sizzling fall season of Cal State Northridge’s Plaza del Sol Performance Hall.
Entertainment lawyer Robert Myman ’67 (Political Science), investment management executive Lauren Leichtman ’72 (Psychology) and songwriter Diane Warren ’78 (Music) in April became Cal State Northridge’s newest Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, during the 12th annual ceremony, held this year at the Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village.
Observant eyes on campus may have noticed three 16’ x 4’ raised-bed vegetable boxes occupying a corner of campus adjacent to the path that leads to the University Park Apartments, near the tennis courts and Northridge Academy High School (NAHS). A cheerfully painted sign announces that the new plants on the block are the first sprouts of the CSUN Community Garden.
She is a thing of beauty. Her sleek, narrow, charcoal-colored carbon fiber body rests delicately on her wheels, the front pair crafted of aluminum alloy. Built, as the saying goes, for speed.
Cal State Northridge’s young and eager Construction Management Technology (CMT) program tested its wings at a recent industry competition known for tough, take-no-prisoners problem-setting.
It was an important spring for Cal State Northridge, its future teachers and its education partners. Within days of the announcement that CSUN had won an $8.4 million federal grant to improve the education of teachers who work with students with disabilities, one of Washington’s top education officials came to campus to describe President Obama’s “cradle to career” plan for American education.
From May 5—29, the 135-year-old Society of Illustrators building on New York’s Upper East Side was the place to go if you wanted to see “the most mature, sophisticated and well crafted art of the year that has come out of art schools” in the U.S.
Perusing the list of performers scheduled for the Shanghai Expo’s US Pavilion in May, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton lit up when she saw the name Cal State Northridge. Clinton remembered Northridge from her husband’s speech here in 1995 and her own campaign stop in 2008.
Who are we away from work? Meet a cross-section of Cal State Northridge faculty and staff who are as interesting and involved off-campus as they are during working hours. At CSUN, their ideas and energy are in the mix! Second in a series.
Louis Herrera’s fingers fly over his Braille Sense, a two lb. device with the functionality of a laptop computer, a menu structure similar to Microsoft Windows, a built-in Bluetooth, wireless Internet, a global positioning system, built-in flash memory and an MP3 player.
If you missed the 2010 Thesis Exhibition featuring the works of 15 Cal State Northridge Master of Art and Master of Fine Art degree students, here is your chance to take a tour in our virtual gallery. Encouraged to push their boundaries beyond single disciplines, the artists created works that reflect influences from the environment, architecture, music, politics and more.
Number of CSUN students eligible for degrees in 2010
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