As part of CSUN’s College of Engineering and Computer Science research seminar series, the department presented a lecture on smart parking to help reduce long student traffic lines on campus. Dr. Adam Kaplan, computer science professor, introduced the pilot project to colleagues in the Jacaranda building on Tuesday and explained the project will have sensors communicating with a mobile app to alert students on limited parking spaces. “We want to help students find parking spots without having to waste time… Read more

Finals week can be quite overwhelming for most students. With tests, papers and oral exams right around the corner, I’m quite positive it will be a week of staying up to the wee hours of the morning, and yes, regretting procrastinating. But fear not my fellow student counterparts, there are a lot of brain foods out there that will  keep your energy afloat and help you ace your finals. Adding these brain foods to your daily diet will help you… Read more

CSUN students can expect a lot of changes in the Oviatt Library next fall with the addition of a new learning commons. The facility will provide students, faculty and staff with more laptops, tablet checkout, wireless printing, improved instructional spaces, group study rooms, a multimedia lab with optional video, digital cameras, and microphone checkout. Lynn Lampert, CSUN coordinator of Library Instruction and Information Competence, said the learning commons is being designed to help the school community with their academics. “The… Read more

The seventh time works like a charm for Rihanna. Rihanna has brought out the biggest in demand producers, writers and artists to produce her new album “Unapologetic.” With names that boast the likes of Sia, Adele, David Guetta and Ne-Yo, this is Riri’s most musically diverse album. Riri’s voice is mature and edgier than its ever been and she’s full of liberation on her seventh studio album “Unapologetic.” Having a rare talent to morph into a musical chameleon, she easily… Read more

The fifth annual Campus Sustainability Day was held Thursday in the USU theater and featured distinguished speakers and showed documentaries. The first speaker was Milind Kulkarni, director of the Engineering Institutes of Mumbai, who presented a project that generates electricity from wastewater. He outlined the positives and negatives of his plan, and emphasized to the audience the importance of using “fewer products that will last longer.” After the lecture was the screening of the award-winning documentary, “There Once Was an… Read more

Like most big cities after the sun goes down, Los Angeles offers a vast array of fun activities  you can partake in at night. If you don’t have time to plan for a big evening affair such as attending a performance arts show, don’t worry, here’s an abundance of nightlife options, at the spur of the moment, you can enjoy with friends and family at free or low cost. Enjoy a late night out, bowling with your friends. Bowling is… Read more

On July 21, Savannah Dawkins, a 26-year-old CSUN journalism alumna, was killed in a tragic automobile accident along with her mother, Nika Dawkins St. Claire, 62, during a road trip near Flagstaff, Arizona. According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety police report, their Mazda vehicle was heading east on Interstate 40 around 8 p.m., when it hit a guardrail and plummeted 40 feet down, landing upside down on a train track. Investigators believe Dawkins and her mother were deceased… Read more

Chinese students from Shanghai Normal University Music College will be allowed to complete an accelerated master’s degree in music at CSUN beginning this fall, after CSUN signed an agreement with the college last week. The program is designed to help SHNU students excel in the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication music department master’s program, said Maureen Rubin, associate dean of the college. “Foreign students were struggling in the graduate music program because they didn’t know about the… Read more