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unusual facts about California State University-Northridge


Fundageek

Harwin is a graduate of CSUN with BS in Accounting/Law and co-founder of the software development company Catalyst Development Corporation.


Bernard Judge

He has conducted housing research in a dozen countries around the world, taught design and lectured on environmental design at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and University of California Berkeley.

Bobby Burgess

In 1961, while attending Long Beach State University, he and his childhood friend (and dancing partner) Barbara Boylan entered a Calcutta dance contest held by Lawrence Welk and his orchestra based on the hit song of the same name.

Brenda Shinn

Shinn returned to competitive shooting in 2006, when her son K.C. attended the California State University in San Bernardino, California.

California State University, Monterey Bay

Students also enjoy going into downtown Monterey, which is a popular tourist destination, being home to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row and Old Fisherman's Wharf.

California State University, San Bernardino

The nickname was inspired by the coyotes that inhabit the area around the campus, which lies on the foothills of San Bernardino Mountains.

Chris Freiling

He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino.

City Center Building

It is the tallest in Hayward, and was previously the second tallest, until the 2013 razing of Warren Hall on the Cal State East Bay campus.

CSUSB College of Extended Learning

The California State University, San Bernardino College of Extended Learning is one of the several colleges of the California State University, San Bernardino, located on the main university campus in the University District of San Bernardino, California.

David Hodo

Hodo graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 1969 where he majored in speech and acted in several campus productions, including Oh What a Lovely War, Carnival and Richard II.

Deanna Oliver

In 2010, she made an appearance at California State University, Northridge with director Jerry Rees to discuss the making of their film, The Brave Little Toaster.

Deanne Bray

A California native, Bray broke into the entertainment industry after she was discovered performing with a deaf dancing group called "Prism West" at a deaf festival at California State University, Northridge, where she earned a B.A. degree in Biology.

Donald R. McMonagle

McMonagle received a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University-Fresno in 1985 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2003.

Duncan Oughton

Oughton attended the University of Otago in New Zealand, before moving to the United States to play college soccer at Cal State Fullerton from 1997 to 2000.

Eklil Ahmad Hakimi

There, Hakimi studied at California State University, Long Beach, completing a degree in 1998, and then working for Liebert, a subsidiary of Emerson Electric, while his wife attended Saddleback College.

Garrett Michael Hayes

Garrett was raised in Maine and moved back to California in 1969, where he later attended Beverly Hills High School and California State College at Bakersfield.

Gilah Yelin Hirsch

The NEA grant, as well as a sabbatical from California State University provided her with a yearlong (1986/87) opportunity to visit fifteen Asian countries.

Greg Kading

He attended Cal State Long Beach and Calvary Bible College.

Henri Coulette

Coulette was born in Los Angeles, California, and earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 from Los Angeles State College, now known as California State University, Los Angeles.

Hooker Oak

Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Jerry Rees

In 2010, Rees and voice actress/writer Deanna Oliver made an appearance at California State University, Northridge to discuss the making of their film The Brave Little Toaster.

John Schneiderman

Schneiderman is currently the director of guitar and lute studies at the University of California, Irvine, and nearby Irvine Valley College, and he has been on the faculties of Orange Coast College, California State University, Long Beach, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Joseph Pivato

Over the years Pivato has been an invited speaker at the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, The University of Montreal, Laurentian University, the California State University, Long Beach, the University of Warwick, U.K. the University of Venice, the University of Melbourne and other institutions.

Klingon Language Institute

He obtained a bachelor's degree in psycholinguistics from California State University, Northridge, and then master's and doctoral degrees in cognitive psychology from Kansas State University.

Ludmyrna Lopez

Ludmyrna holds a Masters of Science in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from California State University, Hayward.

M. G. Sheftall

He holds Master's degrees from California State University and the University of Birmingham, and received his Ph.D in International Relations Studies from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Marsha Petrie Sue

Marsha Petrie Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Home Economics from the California State University at Long Beach, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix from which she graduated magna cum laude.

Maxine Scates

Born and raised in Los Angeles, she received a B.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, where she studied with the poet, Ann Stanford, whose selected poems Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford she later co-edited with another former student of Stanford's, the poet David Trinidad.

Michael J. Aguilar

Aguilar received his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, California State University, Long Beach and a Master's Degree in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs, Naval War College.

Nathan Cody

While attending CSUS in 2002, he was hired as a commercial producer and radio personality at alternative rock station KWOD 106.5fm in Sacramento.

After moving to Sacramento, California in 2002, Cody attended California State University, Sacramento, and formed the group Another Single Day (originally named "Southpaw"), with Casey Fowler and John Marshall.

Nolan Gasser

Gasser received a Bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge (1988), where he studied composition with Aurelio de la Vega, and piano with Charles Fierro; this was followed by a two-year sojourn in Paris, where he studied privately with Betsy Jolas and at Fontainebleau with Jolas, Gilbert Amy, and Tristan Murail.

One Million Signatures

In October 2008, Esha Momeni, a graduate student of the School of Communications, Media and Arts at California State University, interviewed activists in Tehran for a film as part of her California-based studies.

Patrick Vaughan

Patrick Vaughan was enrolled in Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California and attended post-secondary instruction at California State University, Chico where he became friend with the NYPD Blue and Prison Break producer Matt Olmstead, who encouraged Patrick to journalistic and academic writing.

Pete Yoder

He served as a running backs coach at the University of Southern California under John McKay before accepting the head coaching position at California State University, Fullerton, where he compiled an 18–15 record in three seasons (1972–1974).

Rao Machiraju

He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), General Systems and Information Networks (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology (Doctorate from University of Southern California).

Reede-drum

New England Conservatory, Northwestern University, Florida State University and California State University have featured the reede-drum as the primary instrument of percussion majors.

Robert Owen Hutchins

Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967 .

Robert Pope

He taught secondary school in Gonzales, California, before returning to school to earn a standard secondary credential from California State University at Northdridge.

Rory Markas

Born in Chatsworth, California, he was a graduate of Los Angeles Valley College, California State University-Northridge, and Chatsworth High School, Markas won four Golden Mike Awards, two Associated Press Sportscasting Awards, and the 2008 Radio Play-by-Play Award from the Southern California Broadcasters Association.

Scott Bauer

He died two days later, on October 24, 2003 in the Northridge Hospital in Northridge, California,at the age of 49.

SING*ularity

Deriving its title from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - "put thyself into the trick of singularity" - SING*ularity portrays the unique training approach of OperaWorks, an intense training program in Northridge, California for opera singers founded by Ann Baltz in which the entire body is engaged.

Stan Chambers

Among other stories he has covered are the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam break, the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 1965 Watts Riots, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family, and the Hillside Strangler.

StandWithUs

Founded in 2010 with 12 students from UCLA, USC, and CSU Northridge, it has since expanded to include 54 students from those institutions as well as Santa Monica College, Cal Poly Pomona, Chapman University, and UC Irvine.

Vic Katch

He also played college basketball at Cal State Northridge and Uppsala University in Sweden while studying international relations.

Walter Truett Anderson

He has also taught part-time at various institutions including the University of California, Berkeley; Saybrook University; the California School of Professional Psychology; and California State University, Northridge.

Warren Rovetch

With EES and then with his firm Campus Facilities Associates, Rovetch did management and planning studies for the University of Chicago, City University of New York, Ohio Board of Regents, Rutgers, California State University, Iowa State University, and other institutions.

William Link

The William Link Theatre on the campus of California State University, Long Beach is named for Link in honor of his work and donation of plays.

Willie Farley

In 1997 Farley transferred to Fresno State where he had to sit out a semester before becoming eligible to play.

Wilmer Carter

Assembly member Carter graduated from San Bernardino High School and San Bernardino Valley College, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master’s Degree in education from California State University, San Bernardino.


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