It may still be a few years off, but California State University, Northridge biology professor Rachel Mackelprang is part of a team of scientists who are developing safety protocols for when samples collected from the martian surface by NASA’s Perseverance rover or other missions are brought to Earth.
California State University, Northridge announced today that it has received a $63 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
Once again, The Hollywood Reporter has named California State University, Northridge one of the top 20 music schools in the world, alongside such institutions at The Julliard School, Berklee College of Music, University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and Royal College of Music in England.
The small shells found by researchers that include California State University, Northridge anthropologist Hélène Rougier at La Roche-à-Pierrot, a prehistoric archaeological site in Saint-Césaire, France, date back more than 42,000 years, providing evidence of the oldest workshops for the manufacture of shell ornaments in that area.
The “El Rescate Collection, 1977-2016” offers a unique perspective of an El Salvador torn apart by civil war during the 1980s and the conflict’s impact on its people, many of whom sought refuge in the United States, especially Los Angeles.
Funded by a $1.2 million USDA NIFA grant, CSUN, Los Angeles Mission College and LAUSD’s Careers through Culinary Arts Program launched the “Collaborative Pathways to Food and Nutrition Careers through Culinary and Food Safety Certification.”
A team of researchers that includes chemistry students and faculty at California State University, Northridge have just completed a massive computational study of the element iron’s behavior at the Earth’s core. Their findings have caused a fundamental shift in the understanding of how iron reacts under intense pressure.
California State University, Northridge has once again earned a place among the nation’s top music business programs, according to Billboard magazine.
The award-winning entertainment news site TheWrap has included California State University, Northridge among the nation’s top 50 film schools of 2025, alongside such prestigious institutions as the University of Southern California, New York University and AFI Conservatory.