From CSUN & CSULA
In a time of budget slashing, program closings and seemingly curtailed opportunities for young folks seeking advanced education, here's a small cheer for two different boundary-pushing efforts:
- In Northridge, a smart push is under way to hook up a corps of world-class stem cell scientists in Westwood with energetic, capable and ambitious undergrads at the Valley campus known for turning out teachers, in hopes of getting more than a few of them into new careers in research. A $1.6 million grant from the state body that funds stem cell research will let 10 aspirants from the Valley campus pursue projects, study and training in this cutting-edge field with premier Bruin scientists, preparing the chosen few young folks, advocates hope, so they're ready to go on to graduate school or to top jobs as highly skilled and sought after technicians in research labs.
Program builds stem-cell study 'bridge' between Northridge, Westwood
- In East L.A., it took awhile. But the longtime, trail-blazing educational career of a longtime Los Angeles educator and college alum recently and finally got its own bit of recognition. There's a newly named middle school on the Los Angeles Unified School District's Belmont campus that gives a nod to Salvador B. Castro, who not only taught in the system for more than four decades but also played a key role in crucial protests against it in the Sixties. Castro was honored by President Clinton and featured in a 2006 James Edward Olmos film for his part as a teacher supporting youngsters in the 1968 'Chicano blowouts,' a student protest and walk-out that helped bring public attention and some reform to the dire inequities in LAUSD and the rotten schools that were serving Latino communities in East LA.
In East L.A., a small recognition for pioneering efforts of longtime educator, alum
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