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Don’t call it “senioritis” —but the path to Finals Week, graduation, and summer break began to come into focus this week for CSUN Biologists.
Graduating seniors are encouraged to share their stories as part of this year’s CSUN Grad Story survey.
With the CSUNposium coming up next Friday, April 10, students presenting posters are reminded to make plans for printing, and staff and faculty who are available to help judge presentations should email CSM Liaison Jeremy Yoder.
Changes to federal funding implemented in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” mean that SNAP/CalFresh benefits for immigrants are ending this week — affected students should check out the quick, simple resources offered by the CSUN Food Pantry, which are available regardless of immigration status.
GLORIA Great Basin, a nonprofit focused on alpine plant diversity in California and Nevada, has opened up applications for their Peak Opportunity Fellowships, which offer paid 7-day fieldwork experiences surveying plant diversity in the White Mountains to upper-division undergrad, postbaccalaureate, and graduate students. Details are on the GLORIA Great Basin website, and applications come due April 30.
The Biology Colloquium seminar series continues this week with back-to-back presentations by CSUN Biology professors Cheryl Van Buskirk and Mariano Loza Coll. Dr. Van Buskirk studies the molecular genetics underlying behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans, and her talk will be titled “Exciting tales of sleepign worms.” Dr. Loza Coll studies cell fate determination in Drosophila melanogaster; his talk will be titled “Regulation of Drosophila intestinal stem cells: Poking fly stem cells from the inside and the outside.” Colloquium seminars are held this semester at 2:30pm in Chaparral Hall room 5125.