A team of CSUN geography and environmental studies students, working alongside students from Cal State Long Beach, have spent the past few weeks scouring the burn areas of the Palisades, Eaton and Lake Hughes fires looking for natural rivers, streams, creeks and watersheds.
With the anniversary of the Eaton and Palisades fires upon us, Southern California residents may find themselves running through a myriad of emotions — sadness, anger, irritability or even frustration — as they try to process the trauma associated with last year’s devastation.
Southern California’s iconic Joshua trees are in bloom, and California State University, Northridge’s environmental biologists are asking the public’s help in figuring out why and what it means for the trees’ future.
The study of bones from the largest collection of Neandertal remains in Northern Europe has revealed evidence of selective cannibalism targeting Neandertal females and children between 41,000 and 45,000 years ago.
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.