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The end of another October week brings cooling temperatures and lots of rain. CSUN Biologists are hopping puddles and dodging downpours, and starting to think through the dozens of offices and ballot propositions facing them on mail ballots or in the county vote center opening in Redwood Hall.
A Biology Faculty meeting is scheduled for Friday at 11am in Chaparral Hall 5102, and on Zoom; check email for a meeting link.
The new issue of CSUN Magazine has a cover feature on faculty and students across campus working with NASA as part of the ARCS collaboration— including ongoing work by Biology professors Rachel Mackelprang and Chhandak Basu to understand how life as we know it might cope with environments on other worlds.
Friday the annual CSUN Open House is bringing hundreds of prospective students to campus to visit departments and learn how to navigate university life.
Saturday, an LA County vote center opens on campus for early voting in the midterm elections held on Tuesday, November 3—anyone eligible to vote can complete and submit their ballot at the center, in Redwood Hall Room 180. The deadline for registration to vote has passed, but eligible voters can still cast a provisional ballot using conditional registration through the end of Election Day, and their ballot will be counted after their registration is validated.
The Biology Colloquium Seminar Series continues Friday with a talk by Brenda Velasco Ceja, a Senior Scientist at Amgen. Dr. Velasco’s talk, which is sponsored by U-RISE, will be titled, “Redefining immune barriers to hematopoietic stem cell engraftment”. Colloquium seminars are held Fridays this semester at 2:30 pm in Chaparral Hall 5122; and after her talk, Dr. Velasco will join a meet-the-speaker gathering with students in Chaparral Hall 5201.