The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company is mourning the unexpected death of John Slade, who was directing this summer’s production of “Julius Caesar,” but the show will go on with the festival’s founder stepping in to bring his colleague’s vision to the stage.

California Lutheran University has awarded grants to 30 undergraduate students so they can spend the summer researching questions ranging from why Brazilian squirrel monkeys wash their hands and feet in their urine to whether the gut bacteria in green sweat bees on Santa Rosa Island differ from that in those living on the mainland. 

Research conducted by a California Lutheran University marine biologist into the DNA of great white sharks will be featured in Shark Week’s kickoff episode this summer.

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival will close its 21st season with a modern-day “Julius Caesar” featuring a female Cassius among other gender-swapped and untraditionally cast roles.

KCLU Radio News Director Lance Orozco received a national award for excellence in journalism on Friday.

California’s first formal, centralized market for individual landowners to buy and sell groundwater has been launched on the Oxnard Plain, and the United States Department of Agriculture has awarded a $1.9 million grant to expand the pilot project later this year. 

The 21st season of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival will open with one of the Bard’s early comedies.

William Shakespeare-inspired art will be exhibited this summer at California Lutheran University while the annual Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival takes place on the Thousand Oaks campus.

California Lutheran University’s Class of 2017 has four valedictorians among its traditional undergraduates graduating Saturday, more students sharing the honor than in any previous year.

The second annual Dragon Boat Festival will be held at California Lutheran University at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 20.

California Lutheran University faculty members honored one of their own for her enthusiasm and dedication as a teacher and adviser.

Four professors with a combined total of 150 years of service to California Lutheran University are retiring in May.

The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) has named California Lutheran University faculty member Trudy Tuttle Arriaga its Professor of Education of the Year.

A performance highlighting California Lutheran University’s growing dance program, which will be marked by the addition of a minor in fall, will be presented on Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6.

Student jazz musicians from California Lutheran University will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 4, in Overton Hall on the Thousand Oaks campus.