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Cal State LA celebrates faculty excellence at the Employee Recognition and Service Awards Celebration
Six Cal State LA faculty members were recognized for excellence in teaching and outstanding achievements during the university’s first combined Employee Recognition and Service Awards Celebration on Sept. 4. The theme of the celebration was “A Sky Full of Stars: Every...
Fall move-in brings excitement, new beginnings to Cal State LA
Cal State LA’s campus was abuzz as more than 1,200 students moved into the university’s residential communities, bringing with them rolling carts, packed boxes, and the excitement of a new academic year. Fall 2026 Move-In Week began Monday, Aug. 17, at the Golden...
Cal State LA recognized among nation’s best colleges for Hispanic student economic mobility
Cal State LA has again ranked among the nation’s best higher learning institutions for transforming the lives of its students, with the latest findings focusing on its Hispanic population. Washington Monthly and Excelencia in Education ranked Cal State LA as No. 4...
Cal State LA sets fundraising record with $55.8 million raised in fiscal year 2026
LOS ANGELES — California State University, Los Angeles closed the most successful fundraising year in its history in Fiscal Year 2026, securing $55.8 million in philanthropic commitments to advance student success, academic excellence, and community impact across Los...
Student Success
Cal State LA study finds native plants boost urban pollinators
Residential yards landscaped with California native plants support four times more pollinators than conventionally landscaped yards, according to a new study led by Cal State LA alumna Esmeralda Reyes. The findings suggest that homeowners can play a significant role...
Cal State LA chemistry major earns prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Cal State LA chemistry major Elise Hastie has been named a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholar, one of the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate awards in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education...
Juan Landa
Juan Landa did not have a fondness for math while growing up in Mid-City, but once he began taking business courses at Cal State LA, the numbers suddenly started to make sense. Landa, 21, will receive his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an...
Matthew Gordon Ardis
One of Matthew Ardis’ cochlear implants failed and had to be replaced as he was working on his undergraduate degree in astrophysics. Medical complications forced him to go about eight months without the left implant on his dominant hearing side, making it difficult...
Faculty Distinction
Cal State LA faculty and students contribute to Emmy win for LA County Holiday Celebration
LOS ANGELES — Cal State LA faculty member Meredith Greenburg and students Leah Cobleigh and Ngan Ho-Lemoine were part of the team behind the Emmy-winning 66th Annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, which was broadcast live on PBS SoCal from the Dorothy...
Cal State LA associate professor receives regional Emmy for Key Bridge documentary
Cal State LA Associate Professor April Brown has earned a regional Emmy for her work as co-director of a documentary examining the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, and its impact on the surrounding community. Brown, a faculty member in...
Cal State LA Professor Satik Andriassian to lead arts residency for displaced children in Armenia
This coming fall, Satik Andriassian, a classical guitar lecturer and guitar ensemble director in Cal State LA's Department of Music, will return to Armenia to lead the Children of Armenia Music Program (CAMP), a three-week arts residency for displaced children....
Cal State LA joins statewide network to monitor biodiversity and climate impacts
Cal State LA is joining a major statewide initiative to monitor biodiversity and better understand how climate change and urban development are reshaping the ecosystems across California. The project, supported by $2.5 million from the California Department of Fish...
Staff Distinction
Cal State LA nursing director receives prestigious National League for Nursing scholarship award
Eurina Cha, director of the Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing in Cal State LA’s Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services, has received the 2026 National League for Nursing (NLN) Cecelia Lou Vriheas Scholarship Award. Administered by the NLN Foundation for...
Cal State LA arts leader teaches inaugural Harvard course on arts administration and museum leadership
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Nicholas A. Mestas, executive director of The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA, recently designed and taught a new graduate-level course at Harvard University during the first term of Harvard Summer School, the nation’s oldest...
Cal State LA to host visiting Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from Italy
Cal State LA has been selected to host a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) from Italy during the 2025–26 academic year. Dario Coletti, an associate professor of cell biology at Sapienza University of Rome, is an expert in skeletal muscle homeostasis, regeneration,...
Academics & Research
Cal State LA selected to join the inaugural global ‘Partners in Peace’ initiative
Cal State LA has been selected as a member of the inaugural Partners in Peace cohort, an initiative launched by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in partnership with the Nobel Peace Center. This program recognizes institutions for their efforts in...
Cal State LA receives NASA grant to fund research projects that advance STEM career development
Cal State LA has received a $375,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) program to support projects that offer career development...
Cal State LA awarded prestigious NSF PREM grant in collaboration with UC Irvine
Cal State LA, in partnership with the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a prestigious Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance research and education in the field of...
Cal State LA receives $5 million NSF grant to create urban sustainability hub
Cal State LA has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a hub for urban sustainability that will advance energy and water research, and expand opportunities for students to engage in intensive STEM education and training. The...
Community & Public Good
Cal State LA celebrates graduates of APIs Mobilize Leadership Program
The next generation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders and other first-generation college student leaders took center stage at Cal State LA on Aug. 7 as students from Cal State LA and Pasadena City College (PCC) graduated from...
UAII brings intertribal Indigenous powwow to Cal State LA, a first-ever for the campus
The spirit of community, culture, and connection drew nearly 3,000 students, families, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members to University Stadium at Cal State LA on Saturday, July 25, for The People’s Home: Intertribal Indigenous Powwow, presented by the...
Cal State LA receives Braille Institute Community Hero Award for advancing access and opportunity
Cal State LA has been named the recipient of the 2026 Braille Institute Community Hero Award in the education/community partner category, recognizing the university’s longstanding commitment to preparing professionals who serve people who are blind or visually...
Cal State LA selected as Los Angeles County Vote Center for June 2 Primary Election
Cal State LA has been selected to serve as a Los Angeles County Vote Center in California’s June 2 Primary Election. Voters in Los Angeles County will be able to cast their ballots for an extended voting period at any Vote Centers located across the county, instead...
Athletics
Lakers great Michael Cooper takes over Cal State LA’s men’s basketball, aims to build championship culture
Michael Cooper perfectly embodies Cal State LA’s “We Are LA” ethos. After all, he was born in Los Angeles, attended high school and junior college locally, played his entire NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and coached the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks and the USC...
Cal State LA’s Nevaeh Asiasi earns CCAA player of the year, leads Golden Eagles to historic season
The Cal State LA women’s basketball team sat in a circle at midcourt of the University Gymnasium following an afternoon practice in preparation for the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) playoffs. Head coach Torino Johnson recapped the program’s most...
Cal State LA golfer Morgan Sjoerdsma earns unprecedented fourth Academic All-America Award
Golfer Morgan Sjoerdsma became Cal State LA’s first four-time Academic All-American when she was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Women’s At-Large third team on Tuesday, July 8. Sjoerdsma, who graduated with a Master of Arts in Educational Technology...
Golden Eagles baseball team returns to Reeder Field with new faces leading the charge
Some introductions might be necessary when the Cal State LA baseball team returns to Reeder Field this weekend. The Golden Eagles, who have been playing their home games at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) as their home field underwent upgrades, come back to Reeder...