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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

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.

This Baby Was Built for Speed

This Baby Was Built for Speed

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.

New Kids on the Building Block

New Kids on the Building Block

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.

Education Matters

Education Matters

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.

An Unexpected Pleasure

An Unexpected Pleasure

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.