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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

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

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.

Smiles for Kids—New Work for Ex-Hoopster’s ‘Good Hands’

As a budding basketball talent from Bellflower, Tom Samson ’97 (Biology) had two dreams in life. One: medical school. Two: “to play Division I basketball against some of the best athletes in the world.”

Waste Not, Want Not

Think you’ve got a big water bill? Think again. An inches-high stack of bills from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) lands every month on Bill Sullivan’s desk. Manager of utilities and power for Cal State Northridge’s Physical Plant Management (PPM) department, Sullivan scours the bills to make sure there are no anomalies, costly meter misreads or potential leaks hidden in the mountain of numbers.

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