Gita Kronen recently pledged a gift for scholarships for the CSUN Honors String Quartet.

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.

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.

The CSUN Symphony Orchestra played a live-to-film concert to the movie “Toy Story,” highlighting the link between the Mike Curb College and The Soraya.

The series received a record-breaking 430 film submissions from students across 53 schools in California, with only 33 films becoming finalists.

The band was first established in a CSUN music class in 2000, when Prof. Ric Alviso first joined CSUN’s Music department.

CSUN’s Urban Forestry Project is raising funds to plant or give away 300 trees in Altadena this fall.

A reception will be held for the exhibits on Thursday, Sept. 11, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with an open house at the Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas Collection.

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.