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CSUN’s Women Center to Welcome Back Esha Momeni

(October 21, 2009)

Cal State Northridge graduate student Esha Momeni spent nearly a year either in prison or under house arrest in Iran where she went to work on her thesis project in 2008. She was finally allowed to return back home this past August.

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CSUN Psychology Student Wins Hearst Award for 2009–10

(October 20, 2009)

Megan Saraceni believes a series of “miracles” has allowed her to survive cancer as an infant, to overcome childhood poverty and a dysfunctional home life and to endure the death of two siblings and her father to become Cal State Northridge’s 2009-10 William Randolph Hearst/CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement recipient.

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CSUN Police Services Relaunches Family-Centered Safety Education Program

(October 20, 2009)

From safety at home to avoiding and escaping predators to planning for natural disasters, children will learn what to do during a series of workshops taught by members of Cal State Northridge’s Department of Police Services.

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Matador Athletics Announces Fall Food Drive to Benefit Children’s Hunger Fund

(October 20, 2009)

Cal State Northridge’s Athletics Department, in association with Children’s Hunger Fund, is hosting a “Fall Canned Food Drive” over the course of six days at the end of October and the beginning of November.

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CSUN’s China Institute Awards Faculty Development Grants

(October 20, 2009)

Cal State Northridge’s China Institute has awarded three development grants to CSUN faculty for the 2009-2010 academic year, funding research in China.

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Public Invited to Join CSUN Alumni in Discussion of Civil Rights in the Jazz Age

(October 19, 2009)

Cal State Northridge history professor Tom Devine is assigning a little homework in anticipation of a public discussion he is leading next month on Kevin Boyle’s award winning book, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age.”

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CSUN’s Pan African Studies Department to Celebrate 40th Anniversary

(October 16, 2009)

Cal State Northridge’s Pan African Studies Department (PAS) will mark its 40th anniversary and commemorate its founding faculty with a daylong celebration next month at the university.

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EOP Wants You to Express Your Right to Free Speech

(October 16, 2009)

Free speech has always been a fundamental part of this country. To say what is on your mind without any repercussion is an essential right for anyone.

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3,600 Shades of Green: Mapping CSUN’s Trees

(October 15, 2009)

Graceful, shade-giving, oxygen-producing and essential to global food production, trees are playing a critical role in the drama of the earth’s changing climate. At Cal State Northridge, a move is afoot to assess the role and impact of the thousands that have transformed the campus into something resembling Marvell’s “green thought in a green shade.”

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New Online Magazine to Urge CSUN Students to ‘Get REAL’

(October 14, 2009)

The messages are everywhere in the media: “If you were only thinner, you’d be happy.” “If you had the right muscle tone, your life would be great.” People are inundated with messages about the “ideal” body image.

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