As the cost of jet fuel continues to rise, so do the prices of airline tickets. The prices at the fuel pump are also going up. But that doesn’t mean a weekend getaway or a week’s vacation is out of reach.
Host Carmen Ramos Chandler talks with Irvin Rendon, manager of CSUN’s DREAM Center, which provides resources and services to undocumented students, mixed status families, staff, faculty, allies and future undocumented students while fostering a more inclusive campus community. DREAM stands for Dreamers, Resources, Empowerment, Advocacy and Mentorship.
CSUN has received a federal grant to physically arrange, describe, rehouse, and make available online over 400 linear feet of archival materials documenting the careers of Bobbi Fielder, James C. Corman and Ed Davis.
CSUN Athletics announced a new three-year partnership with Kaiser Permanente, naming the health care organization as the “Official Health Care Partner” of CSUN Athletics.
There’s an old axiom that “history is written by the victors.” CSUN archivist Keith Rice
says those efforts always fail in the end.
Member-supported 88.5-FM, The SoCal Sound, is the newest affiliate of the public radio organization VuHaus Group. The SoCal Sound’s local page now appears on the NPR Live Sessions website with their unique, local, and engaging music video content.
California State University, Northridge environmental biologist Jeremy Yoder has received more than $800,000 from the federal government to continue work on a software package he calls TARDIS. Similar to Doctor Who’s fantastical blue police box, the project will help researchers “travel through space and time” to understand the health of plant species.
Sustainability and the World Cup are not necessarily contradictory concepts. Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, director of California State University, Northridge’s Institute for Sustainability, argues that attending the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament does not mean one has to sacrifice their dreams of championing sustainability.
Congresswoman Luz Rivas (CA-29) – co-chair of the STEM Education Caucus and the only Latina in Congress with a background in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) – presented over $1,000,000 in federal funding to California State University, Northridge.