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National Center on Deafness Revives Its Prestigious Awards at Stars Gala

(November 2, 2009)

From 1968 to 1998, Cal State Northridge’s National Center on Deafness (NCOD) awarded individuals, schools and communities for their exemplary leadership, innovative leadership and commitment to enhancing quality life for deaf people. The NCOD proudly announces the revival of the prestigious CSUN NCOD Awards.

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Concentration of Payday Lending Associated with Neighborhood Crime Rates; Study Recommends Congress Cap Interest Rates at 36 Percent

(November 2, 2009)

As Congress debates financial regulatory reform and the Obama Administration advocates for greater consumer financial protection, a new study by researchers at Cal State Northridge and The George Washington University finds a need for Congressional action on fringe banking practices used heavily by financially vulnerable families.

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Joint Effort Between CSUN, LMU to Create New Generation of Holocaust Witnesses

(October 29, 2009)

As time continues to march forward, the men and women who survived and witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust are slowly dying off. And with their deaths, powerful tools for teaching and reminding the world of what happened-their voices and memories-are slowly fading away.

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CSUN’s College of Humanities 4th Annual International Film Festival to Explore Privilege in a Racially Diverse Society

(October 26, 2009)

The privileges and exclusions experienced in a racially diverse world will be explored at Cal State Northridge’s fourth annual College of Humanities International Film Festival on Monday, Nov. 2.

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CSUN Receives $1 Million Grant to Develop Programs to Tackle Achievement Gap

(October 26, 2009)

Cal State Northridge, in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, has received a $1 million grant from the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to help improve K-12 teaching in math and English/language arts.

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CSUN’s History Department Holds Lecture of the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

(October 26, 2009)

For more than a quarter of a century, a wall literally divided Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc. On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall started to come down and the reunification of both Europe and specifically Germany began.

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Cal State Northridge’s NCOD to Hold its Second De’VIA Art Show

(October 26, 2009)

The diversity of art is equally as important as the diversity of the artists themselves. Cal State Northridge’s National Center on Deafness will celebrate this diversity at its De’VIA (Deaf View/Image Art) Art Show.

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CSUN Lecture to Explore European Empires, Imperialism and the New World

(October 22, 2009)

Award-winning historian and author Anthony Pagden will explore the relationships between European empires, imperialism and the New World during a special lecture hosted by Cal State Northridge’s Atlantic History Center on Thursday, Nov. 19.

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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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