Missions past shines

Posted on Dec 11, 2006 At 6:29 p.m. one August evening, San Antonio's Mission Concepción yielded a centuries-old secret. Receiving the revelation was a volunteer at the mission, George Dawson. He ...

Mist opportunity

. . . Professor of science and environmental policy Dan Fernandez has been building fog catchers for scientific purposes. He said they are used in arid communities throughout the world. – Mont...

Mixing it Up - CSUMB student Sara Bailey produces a diverse compilation of local music

Posted on Apr 20, 2006 For the past two years of her college career, Sara Bailey has devoted countless hours to showcasing the music scene at CSU-Monterey Bay. The 22-year-old has recruited musici...

Mobile app competition coming to CSUMB

Now is the time for students to register for the annual Startup Hackathon Monterey Bay. This year’s event will be held Nov. 20-22 on the campus of Cal State Monterey Bay. The hackathon is a...

Mobile app competition returns to CSUMB

It’s innovative, intense and a shot at fame and fortune. It’s the Ideas of March Hackathon, a mobile app programming competition open to college students with basic programming skills. The ...

Model Behavior: CSUMB student lands highpofile print ad for Mercury Milan

Posted on Dec 19, 2006 As far as quick-cash side gigs go, male modeling is probably among the least likely arrangements for a struggling college student. CSU-Monterey Bay student Tyler Birkestrand wa...

Model student from Twain Harte to fashion runway

Posted on Nov 29, 2006 You can call Twain Harte's Tyler Birkestrand a model student. Birkestrand, 22, a student at CSUMB, set out four years ago for college to study film and TV. But he has since ...

Modern Justice

. . . The 18th annual CSUMB Social Justice Colloquium is titled "Queer Justice: Past, Present, Future" and is comprised of a panel of scholars, students and activists, followed by audience comm...

Mojo Rising

La Santa Cecilia carries on the Los Angeles music tradition at CSU Monterey Bay. – Monterey County Weekly, Oct. 23, 2014

Mona the Mammoth symbolizes Earth Day at CSUMB

A long-extinct creature roams the earth – at least CSUMB's piece of it – once again. Mona the Mammoth is part of CSUMB's celebration of Earth Day, and will remain on display through May 17. ...

Monitoring Marine Protected Areas

QUEST takes to the high seas with researchers Dr. James Lindholm of CSU Monterey Bay, Dirk Rosen and their crew to study the underwater world off the California coast. In recent years, the stat...

Monitoring program surveys marine ecosystems

April 29, 2010 The California Ocean Protection Council has awarded $4 million, some of it going to a CSU Monterey Bay professor, to monitor North Central Coast marine protected areas. Fundi...

Monologues tell women's stories

The Vagina Monologues returns to CSU Monterey Bay Feb. 11, 12 and 13. The play has received rave reviews in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Written by Eve Ensler, the Vagina Monologues...

Monterey Bay Film Festival 2010

March 19, 2010 *'Charlie and the Rabbit' to be screened* CSU Monterey Bay presents the Monterey Bay Film Festival on April 3 at the World Theater on Sixth Avenue. Doors will open at 12:30...

Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Symposium honors CSUMB students, faculty member

April 19, 2010 ** A team of students from California State University, Monterey Bay took first place in the Currents Symposium research poster contest sponsored by the Monterey Bay National Mar...

Monterey Bay film fest offers variety of work

The Monterey Bay Film Festvial, sponsored by CSUMB, features both professional and local high school and college students' work. – Salinas Californian, April 7, 2011

Monterey Bay fisherman experiments with nets

. . . Professor James Lindholm of CSUMB studies the ways fishing methods alter habitat. In a study published earlier this year, he analyzed the impacts of trawling on the sandy floor of Morro B...

Monterey Bay school prepares to offer BSN

CSU Monterey Bay will offer a bachelor's degree in nursing beginning in summer 2012. The program will be available to students in the established nursing programs at the four community colleges...

Monterey City Council Member Tyller Williamson to Keynote ‘Super Saturday’ Event

SEASIDE, Ca., February 5, 2019 – California State University (CSU) leaders, trustees, campus presidents and alumni will visit nearly 100 churches across the state during the month of February t...

Monterey County Film Commission Selects CSUMB’s Briana Gonzales as Scholarship Winner

(Contributed) May 17, 2017 – Cinematic Arts and Technology student Briana Gonzales was named the 2017 winner of a $2,000 scholarship in the Monterey County Film Commission’s Director Emeritus R...

Monterey County Students Present their Findings to Polar Scientists at CSUMB

SEASIDE Calif., Mar. 15, 2018 – Nearly 100 Monterey County middle and high school students participated in the Student Polar Research Symposium Thursday, March 15, 2018 at the CSUMB Univers...

Monterey Jazz Festival Presents "Jazz and New Horizons" at CSUMB’s World Theater

SEASIDE, Ca., March 28, 2019 – A special collaboration between the Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF) and California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) brings the 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival Arti...

Monterey Library to launch a seed library

. . . Recent CSUMB grad Heather Cunningham led the project development. There is no library budget, just a $500 grant from the CSUMB Alumni Association to Cunningham to purchase seed stock. She...

Monterey mural features work by science illustration grad

A mural by Stephanie Rozzo is now helping visitors to Monterey understand what the city’s natural landscape looked like over 400 years ago. A 2011 graduate of CSU Monterey Bay’s science ill...

Monterey resident to lead Cradle to Career partnership

Cynthia Nelson Holmsky is joining CSU Monterey Bay in an administrative appointment to be director of the Monterey County Cradle to Career Partnership. In that capacity, Ms. Holmsky will be...

More dining options for those with food allergies

Starting this semester, food allergy sufferers at CSU Monterey Bay will have an easier time finding meals that work for them. Simple Servings, a station located in the Dining Commons, will pr...

More honors for TAT

Sept. 2, 2009 Students and faculty members in the Teledramatic Arts and Technology program continue to earn accolades for their work. At last month's Carpinteria Valley Arts Center's first an...

More honors for archaeology professor

Professor Ruben Mendoza has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the annual meeting of the California Mission Studies Association (CMSA). The meeting will be held Feb. 14-16 at Missi...

More incoming students coming from the region

The number of CSUMB students from the tri-county area increased in Fall 2010. Residents of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties now make up 33 percent of enrollment, compared with 31 pe...

More support for Chinatown museum

CSUMB faculty members land humanities grant A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help move the Salinas Chinatown Cultural Center and Museum another step closer to reality. ...

More than 1,500 receive degrees at CSUMB commencement

Thousands of well-wishers crowded the stands of Freeman Stadium May 16 for the commencement ceremony at CSU Monterey Bay. Keynote speaker Hugo Morales urged the graduates to remember that t...

Most memorable moment for 2010-11 Otter athletics

How could bringing home CSU Monterey Bay’s first NCAA Division II national championship not be the No. 1 Most Memorable Moment in 2010-11? A six-tournament victory streak capped by a national t...

Move over, Masters

CSUMB to compete in national disc golf championship While the world tuned in to see Tiger Woods' return to golf at The Masters tournament at Augusta National, the disc golf community prepared fo...

Move-in Day at CSUMB

Hundreds of excited students carried, dragged and wheeled their belongings into the residence halls at CSU Monterey Bay on Aug. 24, the first day of the three-day move-in weekend. – Marina Gaze...

Move-in day at CSU Monterey Bay

Aug. 20, 2010 Hundreds of excited students wheeled, carried and dragged their belongings into the residence halls at CSU Monterey Bay on Aug. 20, the first day of the three-day move-in weekend....

Move-in day heralds start of school year

Largest enrollment in CSUMB's history Aug. 22 was move-in day at Cal State Monterey Bay, where incoming students said hello to new roommates and goodbye to parents. Over the weekend, freshmen...

Move-in day kicks off school year

Hundreds of excited students carried, dragged and wheeled their belongings into the residence halls at CSU Monterey Bay on Aug. 24, the first day of the three-day move-in weekend. By the ti...

Mural graces library's main floor

CSU Monterey Bay has recently added to its collection of historically significant works of art. “The Pageant of Transportation in California,” a sweeping depiction of industrialization in t...

Murals highlight new neighborhood park

Students in Professor Johanna Poethig’s painting and mural class at Cal State Monterey Bay are helping to brighten a park and learning valuable lessons in the process. They are creating a s...

Murrieta grad earns internship in D.C.

Devin Nunes, member of Congress from Visalia, has a new staff member – Hannah Plummer, who has been assigned to his office as part of the Panetta Congressional Internship program. Hannah is a s...

Murrow Award for KAZU news director

Krista Almanzan, news director of KAZU, has won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in electronic journalism presented by the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). ...

Museum director kicks off visiting artist series

Nina Simon – called a “visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine – wants people to be excited about museums. She told the Santa Cruz Sentinel: “To me, a great museum is like a great dinner party –...

Museum will tell story of Fort Ord

Posted on Aug 01, 2005 Things have been piling up in Steven Levinson's garage. It's full of memorabilia such as uniforms, phone books and photographs from the former U.S. Army base at Fort Ord. "W...

Music students shine in May

Student recitals May 9 and 10 Highlights from "West Side Story," the hit Broadway musical and film, will be performed at CSU Monterey Bay’s spring concert on May 4. Featuring music by Leonard...

Music, dance performance by group from Ghana

“Africa in the House,” an evening of music and dance by the African Show Boyz, will be held at CSU Monterey Bay on Feb. 7. The free program will get under way at 7 p.m. in the Music Hall. Bor...

NAACP Honors Mel Mason and Black Staff & Faculty on Feb. 23rd, 7 p.m. at Music Hall

For Black History Month, the NAACP@CSUMB is honoring Mel Mason, all new (hired since fall 2014), and veteran (hired before fall 2000),or retiring black staff and faculty. Join u...

NAACP chapter established at CSUMB

They have no memories of the civil-rights milestones of the mid-1960s, but that hasn't prevented students at Cal State Monterey Bay from starting a campus chapter of the NAACP. – Marina Gazette...

NAACP president gets early start on the job

When she was elected in the spring of 2014 to head the campus chapter of the NAACP, Mia Elliott said, “I can’t wait to start. I am really looking forward to being president.” A sophomore Li...

NAACP student chapter expands campus role

Group works to connect with cultural clubs They have no memories of the civil-rights milestones of the mid-1960s, but that didn’t prevent students at Cal State Monterey Bay from starting a campus...

NASA Satellite Images Will Help Farmers Conserve Water

Researchers at CSU Monterey Bay and NASA are testing a new way to help California farmers decide exactly how much water to use on their crops. It's a tool that could eventually help growers any...