One will be able to hear the cheers emanating from the center of California State University, Northridge’s campus from blocks away later this month as thousands of graduates cross the stage in front of CSUN’s iconic University Library as the university celebrates its 2026 commencement.

California State University, Northridge convened national leaders across philanthropy, technology, education and entertainment to launch a bold initiative to equip Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) learners to lead and prosper in an AI-driven economy.

With the help of their own TARDIS, CSUN’s environmental biologists have been studying climate change’s impact on the state’s iconic toyon plants — popularly known as “Christmas Berry” or “California Holly” — to get an understanding of chaparral and oak woodland communities’ resiliency.

The Institute for Sustainability at California State University, Northridge will host its fifth annual campus EV car show on Wednesday, April 15. Students and the general public will have the chance to test drive the newest electric cars and discover more about their innovation and sustainability. 

Using bone fragments, some no bigger than a finger, California State University, Northridge anthropologist Hélène Rougier and an interdisciplinary team of international researchers have discovered that the last Neanderthals in Europe all descended from one lineage. 

California State University, Northridge has appointed Chad Hilligus as the new executive and artistic director of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, known as The Soraya, a nationally recognized performing arts venue.

When American photographer Richard Cross visited Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia, in the 1970s, it was as part of an anthropological effort to document the lives of the descendants of Africans living the area.

Her family’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust is a story that Daniela Gerson, an associate professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge, has been trying to tell for years.

The public is invited to join students from all 22 California State University campuses for a full day of creative experiences — including AI-assisted tools that can reshape content creation — on Friday, April 10, at California State University, Northridge.

There are memes out there that look so real that it’s hard to believe they are not. Some people are convinced that a claim they saw on the internet that included documents and other items of support is true, regardless of how incredulous it sounds.