They risked their lives in the fight for a better economic future for farmworkers and recognition that the men, women and children who picked produce in America’s fields were human beings and deserved to be treated with respect.
“Esperanza y Dignidad: The Farmworker Movement”, comisariada por el Tom & Ethel Bradley Center de la Universidad Estatal de California en Northridge, capta los rostros de cientos de hombres y mujeres que integraron el movimiento. La exposición se inaugura esta semana en el Museo de Justicia Social, en el centro de Los Ángeles.
The fall semester is coming up, Matadors! Bookmark the Student Academic Calendar and the Registration Calendar to keep track of important dates. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of key events.
California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds has been able demonstrate, with data meticulously collected over nearly 40 years along the coral reefs off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, that those “acute” events, combined with the “thousand cuts” caused by rising ocean temperatures are damaging the marine ecosystems that once helped corals thrived.
Danny Bustos, a 26-year-old CSUN alumnus working in private equity, recently created the Bustos Family Scholarship to invest in the education of the next generation of Nazarian College students.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping on sidewalks and other public outdoor spaces, a decision that will particularly resonate in cities like Los Angeles, where homeless encampments remain a major issue.
A team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder partnered with hundreds of volunteer naturalists to reconstruct how 120 years of climate change has affected Joshua trees.