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Student Engineering Team Wins International Robotics Competition

Student Engineering Team Wins International Robotics Competition

Cal State Northridge’s College of Engineering and Computer Science is on a roll. Named the fastest growing undergraduate engineering program by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in 2010, its students recently won two important competitions, one international and one regional.

Education Opportunity Program Receives $1.1 Million Federal Grant

Education Opportunity Program Receives $1.1 Million Federal Grant

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Cal State Northridge’s Education Opportunity Program a $1.1 million Student Support Service Program (SSSP) grant.

NEH-Funded Workshop Explores Mexican, Spanish Influences on History

NEH-Funded Workshop Explores Mexican, Spanish Influences on History

This summer, 80 K–12 teachers and librarians from across the United States converged at Cal State Northridge and other Southern California sites for a workshop, “The Spanish and Mexican Influences on California, 1769–1884,” funded by a Landmarks Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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.


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