No. 57: summer 2009

Still a Place About People

Still a Place About People

“The University Club is a place about people,” said Gray Mounger, Cal State Northridge’s assistant vice president of alumni affairs, “about those who helped build it, the many who have provided it with leadership and the patrons who continue to enjoy it.”

On the Quest for What Lies Beneath

On the Quest for What Lies Beneath

Hidden beneath southern Africa, within the region’s massive, 1,800-mile thick mantle of pliant rock, the African superplume has been described as “the largest discrete structure in the Earth’s interior.” But it remains “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”

The Seventh Voyage of Kathie Marsaglia

The Seventh Voyage of Kathie Marsaglia

The probability of high winds and stomach-churning swells, said the captain, was zero.

A New ‘Twist’ on the Sun

A New ‘Twist’ on the Sun

In the ordinary scheme of things, a cup of coffee starts out steaming hot and gradually cools. The reverse might strike a person as…well…odd.

Don’t Know Much About Algebra?

Don’t Know Much About Algebra?

Slim, bright-eyed Dawn Yuen was looking for Sierra Hall. Jeffery Thomas was the lucky guy who happened along and helped her find it.


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