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.

California State University, Northridge is partnering with AltadenaWILD and Outward Bound Adventures (OBA) to host the ReGreen Altadena TreeFest on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Ten-time Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Arturo Sandoval is teaming up with California State University, Northridge’s music students for a live performance during a free screening of the film “For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story” on Wednesday, Sept. 24, as part of CSUN’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.

The news media regularly reports that children, and even adults, aren’t reading as much as they used to. That’s actually a misnomer, according to California State University, Northridge literacy experts Dominic Grasso and Mira Pak.

There is a saying that permeates to every corner of the California State University, Northridge campus: “Once a Matador, always a Matador.”

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.