The Salon Series is scheduled to take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, in the Zev Yaroslavsky Rehearsal Room inside The Soraya Performing Arts Center, located at 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge.

Officials with California State University, Northridge’s Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub are hoping to elevate the power of that intergenerational knowledge with the launch of “Culture is Currency,” the hub’s inaugural national STEAM innovation challenge, with 18 Hispanic-serving institutions across seven states, including California, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and Florida.

The Tamkin Foundation supported an award got the top graduating student, scholarships and faculty research in the Department of Economics.

Campus Compact named students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico who will form the 2026-2027 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows.

California State University, Northridge is partnering with the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education to conduct the Propel Regional Training for news editors and managers across the state on Oct. 22-24 in Burbank.

Her photos captured life in Black Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. Vera Jackson, the only woman who worked in the 1940s as a staff photographer for The California Eagle — the oldest Black newspaper — captured images of weddings, society events and protests, chronicling every-day life in a community that was largely ignored by the rest of the city.