California State University, Northridge microbiologist Cristian Ruiz Rueda has dedicated his career to developing novel ways of preventing and treating infectious diseases caused by bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics. 

California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds has been able demonstrate, with data meticulously collected over nearly 40 years along the coral reefs off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, that those “acute” events, combined with the “thousand cuts” caused by rising ocean temperatures are damaging the marine ecosystems that once helped corals thrived.

A team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder partnered with hundreds of volunteer naturalists to reconstruct how 120 years of climate change has affected Joshua trees.