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Alumni and Students, as Peace Corps Volunteers, Become Global Agents of Change: CSUN Launches New Master’s International (MI) Program

Alumni and Students, as Peace Corps Volunteers, Become Global Agents of Change: CSUN Launches New Master’s International (MI) Program

When Edith Castillo ’06 (Communications Studies) took the CSUN women and gender studies class “Women as Agents of Change,” she had no idea she was preparing for her own role as an agent of change. Castillo and hundreds of Northridge alumni have taken what they’ve learned at the university to improve people’s lives around the world as volunteers with the Peace Corps.

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Thank Cal State Northridge for Their Start: 2011 Honorees: Don Hahn, Carol Vaness and Irv Zakheim

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Thank Cal State Northridge for Their Start: 2011 Honorees: Don Hahn, Carol Vaness and Irv Zakheim

Honored as this year’s recipients of Cal State Northridge’s Distinguished Alumni Awards, Hollywood producer Don Hahn ’75 (Music) proved dreams do come true; celebrated opera singer Carol Vaness MA ’76 (Music), Hon. D ’98 (Fine Arts) received rave reviews; and entrepreneur and business executive Irv Zakheim ’71 (Physical Education) attested that teamwork pays.

NASA Scientist and Program Executive Adriana Ocampo Uria, MS ’97

NASA Scientist and Program Executive Adriana Ocampo Uria, MS ’97

In August 2011, NASA will launch from Cape Canaveral its long-awaited Juno mission to orbit the massive globe of dense gases in search of new scientific understanding. As NASA Headquarters’ program executive for the science mission directorate, CSUN alumna Adriana Ocampo Uria, MS ’97 (Geology) is responsible for both the Juno and New Horizons missions.

Chaparral Hall—Built for 21st Century Science

Chaparral Hall—Built for 21st Century Science

“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.

Big Problems in Paradise

Big Problems in Paradise

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.

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