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Cal State LA, CSUN receive multimillion-dollar federal grant to prepare students for fintech careers
California State University, Los Angeles and California State University, Northridge have jointly received a five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare students for careers in financial technology, or fintech, which focuses on...
MESA STEM Day at Cal State LA opens pathways to STEM careers
Cal State LA welcomed more than 407 middle and high school students for its 22nd annual MESA STEM Day on Saturday, Oct. 24. More than 100 student, faculty, staff, and alumni volunteers helped make the day of learning and exploration possible, with support from Boeing,...
EagleCon brings science fiction, fantasy, and career exploration to Cal State LA
Cal State LA hosted its annual EagleCon, a student-centered sci-fi and fantasy convention, in the University-Student Union Oct. 20-22. The three-day event, sponsored by the Art Directors Guild, welcomed students to explore their creativity and get in touch with their...
Cal State LA earns Seal of Excelencia recertification, reaffirming its commitment to student success
Cal State LA has earned recertification of the Seal of Excelencia, a national certification recognizing colleges and universities that demonstrate sustained efforts to improve outcomes for Latino students while advancing student success for all. Cal State LA is among...
Student Success
Cal State LA graduate student receives CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement
Edgar Yak-De Padua, a first-generation college student who overcame financial hardship to excel academically, has been named a recipient of a 2026 California State University Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award is the university system’s highest...
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...
Alumni
Cal State LA alumni reconnect through music and community at GRAMMY Museum
Hundreds of Cal State LA alumni and friends gathered at the GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 1 for an evening of connection, community, and celebration. The capacity event marked the first regional alumni reception under the leadership of Cal State LA...
Cal State LA alumnus David Glyer and Vicki Bier support accessibility and student success
Long before Cal State LA was recognized as No. 1 in the country for upward mobility, David Glyer knew the value of the education he and his family received while pursuing their degrees. Glyer attended what was then called California State College, Los Angeles, as...
A Cal State LA romance grows into marriage, family, and shared purpose for Ruby Rodriguez and Michael Garcia
As the month that celebrates Valentine’s Day and our loved ones winds down, we present a Cal State LA love story. It is the shared story of Ruby Rodriguez and Michael Garcia, who met at Cal State LA as student assistant employees, started dating after being in a class...
A love story sparked at Cal State LA returns to campus for Valentine’s jazz celebration
Jeffrey Silverman and Amelia Pérez-Silverman met at Cal State LA’s old Physical Sciences Building (now the Student Services Building), in the room that was home to the Chemistry Club. They were engaged within months and married a year later in 1978....
Faculty Distinction
Cal State LA education professor receives Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for work in India
Manisha Javeri, a professor of education and coordinator of the Educational Technology Program at Cal State LA, has received a prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award to teach and conduct research in India during the 2026-27 academic...
Cal State LA Professor Stephen Rothman’s ‘Effortless Perfection’ earns film festival recognition
Effortless Perfection, a short film directed by Cal State LA Theatre Professor Stephen Rothman, is earning recognition on the film festival circuit. The film has received seven laurels from six film festivals. It was screened on May 11 at the Big Apple Film Festival...
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...
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,...
Cal State LA alum J.T. Chestnut completes world marathon majors and five years of sobriety, marking a journey of resilience and purpose
Long-distance running is a constant in J.T. Chestnut’s life. Through joyful times and difficult ones and everything in between, Chestnut has steadfastly tightened the shoestrings of his size 8 ½ Hoka shoes, hit the road, and released endorphins as he logged one mile...
Academics & Research
Cal State LA and Germany’s OFFIS launch international partnership on AI and critical infrastructure resilience
Cal State LA and OFFIS Institute for Information Technology in Oldenburg, Germany, have established a new research and academic partnership focused on artificial intelligence, geospatial analysis, and the resilience of critical infrastructure. The collaboration brings...
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...
Community & Public Good
Cal State LA selected as county Vote Center for 2026 general election
Cal State LA will serve as a Los Angeles County Vote Center for the Nov. 3 general election, giving voters another place to cast their ballots in person. Los Angeles County voters can cast their ballots for an extended voting period at any Vote Centers located across...
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...
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...