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Host Carmen Ramos Chandler talks to film professor about his memories of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Thomas was a lecturer at the university when a 6.7-magniture earthquake struck, destroying classrooms, laboratories and offices. Thomas still marvels that, despite all the damage, the campus opened four weeks after the earthquake hit, with the 1994 spring semester starting only two weeks late. Click here to learn more about the earthquake’s impact on the CSUN campus.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

Hosts Sydnee Roddy and Carmen Ramos Chandler continue their conversation with California State University, Northridge history professor Patricia Juarez-Dappe about the lessons chocolate can teach us about Mesoamerican civilizations, colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and 20th century human trafficking, and the Industrial Revolution. Click here to learn more about Juarez-Dappe’s chocolate research.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

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Host Carmen Ramos Chandler talks to computer science alum with George Salas about his memories of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Salas was a senior looking forward to his last semester at the university when a 6.7-magniture earthquake struck, destroying the university as he knew it. Click here to learn more about the earthquake’s impact on the CSUN campus.© 2024 California State University, Northridge

Filmed by: CSUN Marketing Videography Team Edited by: CSUN Marketing Videography Team Music by: Epidemic sound (licensed with permission)© 2024 California State University, Northridge