Archaeologist Owen Doonan, an art history professor at California State University, Northridge, spent the summer scouring the forests and farmlands of rural Romania looking for evidence of the indigenous people who lived in the hillfort settlements that once dotted western Eurasian steppe during the Iron Age. 

Congresswoman Luz Rivas (CA-29) and former Congressman Tony Cárdenas (CA-29) will join California State University, Northridge President Erika D. Beck and Andrew Anagnost, CEO of Autodesk, Inc., one of the world’s leading in Design and Make technology companies, for the grand opening of the Autodesk Technology Engagement Center. 

With the start of school just weeks away, teachers are already planning for the new academic year. Adding to their start-of-school list of concerns has been a summer filled with trauma for their students as the children grapple with the loss of family members to immigration raids and fears that when they get home, someone they love will be gone.

Social media around the world is filled with images of immigration and border enforcement officers violently rounding up people in Los Angeles and other major cities across the United States.

A matching gift of up to $500,000 from California State University, Northridge alumnus Harvey Bookstein and his wife Harriet is enabling the university to expand its lactation program so it can train students to become nationally certified lactation counselors.

A few years ago, California State University, Northridge journalism professor José Luis Benavides sat on a Society of Professional Journalists panel examining the role of the news media covering immigration before Donald Trump’s first presidency.

Hace unos años, José Luis Benavides, profesor de periodismo de la Universidad Estatal de California, en Northridge, participó en un panel de la Sociedad de Periodistas Profesionales que examinaba el papel de los medios de comunicación que cubrían la inmigración antes de la primera presidencia de Donald Trump.

California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds met for nearly a week earlier this summer with his French and US counterparts in a chateau in France to find ways in which they could continue their research on the coral reefs of French Polynesia, and perhaps identify ways to bolster support for scientific research at a time when politics takes precedence over the search for truth.

Cell and molecular biologist Chhandak Basu, a professor at California State University, Northridge, is an expert in plant and microbial cellular responses to climate change and environmental extremes.

After a brief absence, legendary veteran DJ and television host Matt Pinfield is returning to airwaves of 88.5-FM, The SoCal Sound, later this week when he joins Marc “Mookie” Kaczor on “The Drive,” on Friday, May 30, at 5 p.m.
Just a few days later, “The Matt Pinfield Show,” featuring the award-winning music personality, will debut on Monday, June 2, from 5 to 7 p.m.