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SEASIDE, Calif., September 16, 2019 – CSUMB senior Selena Velasquez has received the 2019 California State University (CSU) Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, the CSU’s highest recognition of student achievement. Velasquez is one of 23 awardees, one from each campus in the CSU, who was publicly recognized during a CSU Board of Trustees meeting on September 24-25, 2019.

SEASIDE, Ca., Sept. 11, 2019 -- CSU campuses ranked among the top universities for social mobility, according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings for 2020. A new addition to the annual rankings, the Top Performers on Social Mobility category compares how well universities and colleges do in graduating Pell Grant-eligible students.

SEASIDE, Ca., Sept. 10, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) College of Science Professor Dan Fernandez has secured a Department of Defense (DoD) grant that will help fund enhanced technology used in fog collection research at CSUMB. The award, totaling $266,589, was granted through the DoD’s Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI) Equipment/Instrumentation grant.

SEASIDE, Calif., August 28, 2019 -- Two CSUMB Marine Science students have been selected to receive scholarships from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The scholarship recipients, Jezella Peraza and Jason Gronich, were the only students selected from across the California State University system receive these awards.

SEASIDE, Calif., August 27, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) is set to host the 2019 Startup Investment & Community Expo on September, 27, 2019 at the Embassy Suites in Seaside.

SEASIDE, Calif., August 26, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) Communications Across the Disciplines associate professor Nelson Graff was one of 19 faculty across the California State University (CSU) system to be awarded the Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award.

SEASIDE, Calif., August 23, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) began welcoming students back to campus today, officially kicking off CSUMB’s 25th anniversary year. Classes begin on Monday, August 26, but all incoming, first-year students are required to attend a weekend long orientation called “Otter Days,” starting Friday, August 23.

SEASIDE, Calif., August 9, 2019 – California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) hosted the 6th annual summer research symposium at the Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library on Friday, August 9, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

SEASIDE, Ca., August 6, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Director of the Salinas Center for Arts and Culture, and Cinematic Arts and Technology Professor Enid Ryce was awarded the 2019 Monterey County Peace Award today by Monterey County Supervisor, Luis Alejo. Ryce was presented the award during National Night Out at Hebbron Family Center in Salinas along with Alma y Tradicion Ballet Floklorico and Hijos Del Sol, who also received the award.

SEASIDE, Ca., August 2, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) has been selected to receive a five-year $2,125,000 grant from the United States Department of Education. CAMP is a federally-funded program designed to assist CSUMB’s migrant students and seasonal farmworker first-time freshmen by providing holistic services that assist those students in reaching a level of self-efficacy that ensures their academic and personal success.