Research vessel works in uncharted waters

Everyone at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant knew that Professor Rikk Kvitek was authorized to enter the restricted coastal waters around the plant – except the guards with the M-16s. Dr. ...

Researcher represents CSUMB at international conference

A shortage of fish in the ocean, combined with human population growth, means global shortfalls for traditional food sources. Squid may help to fill the gap. That’s according to Michael Nav...

Rethinking Higher Ed

It's SWOT time at CSU Monterey Bay. The exercise – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats – started Sept. 5. It's the first step toward updating the university's strategic plan and achie...

Return of the Natives brings environmental education home

RON, the outreach arm of the CSU Monterey Bay Watershed Institute, gets local students of all ages involved in creating native habitats in their communities. It also works to clean up the water...

Review praises CSU Monterey Bay

Accrediting commission cites grad rate, student success ? The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accrediting Commission on Senior Colleges & Universities has reaffirmed its ...

Richard Wolffe to speak globalization impact on Monterey Bay region Oct. 27

SEASIDE, Ca., Oct. 7, 2016 -- The 2016-2017 President's Speaker Series kicks off Thurs. Oct. 27 when President Ochoa hosts best-selling author and MSNBC analyst Richard Wolffe. The topic of con...

Riding on a Dream

Daniel Diaz is living the dream of a Dreamer. The 20-year-old is en route to obtaining a bachelor's degree in computer science in the innovative CSIT-in-3 program operated by Ha...

Right place, time for CSUMB golfers

No other sport at Cal State Monterey Bay has had as much postseason success as the men's golf team at Hunter Ranch Golf Course. When the Otters start the CCAA championship, they will look to ke...

Rivals meet for post-game treat

Though the CSUMB and Sonoma State baseball teams may have been rivals on the field April 5, they sat down to dinner together at the end of the day. – Off 68, April 19, 2013

Road closure on Saturday

On Saturday, April 23, several roads adjacent to campus will be closed for most of the day to accommodate training exercises by Monterey County law enforcement and fire personnel. Between 6...

Robert Danziger receives honorary doctorate

Robert Danziger, a sustainable energy pioneer, lawyer, inventor and musician, was honored Sept. 14 by California State University, Monterey Bay and the CSU.? CSU Monterey Bay President Dian...

Rodriguez honored for outstanding achievement

An aspiring physician and medical researcher from CSUMB has been chosen for a California State University Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. Jason Rodriguez, a senior biology major ...

Room to grow

When CSUMB officials last updated the campus master plan in 2007, enrollment was expected to cap at 8,500 students. Fast forward to 2015, with an enrollment of 7,000 students and a revised expe...

Rotary Club donates $20K for CSUMB program

The Rotary Club of Salinas donated $20,000 to CSUMB for use in its Pay it Forward Scholarship program, at a club meeting Nov. 23. The donation will support one student for four years at CSUMB. ...

Rough and Tumble

Taking on a group of bruising Scottish ruby players in a match at Preston Park in Marina could be seen as a daunting challenge to players from CSU Monterey Bay. The Otters had less experience a...

Rugby Club sponsors 'Invictus' on Oct. 7

The Rugby Club at CSU Monterey Bay invites the community to attend a free screening of the Oscar-nominated film “Invictus” on Oct. 7. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. in Room 1188 of the Tani...

S.F. art exhibit showcases work of CSUMB faculty

A San Francisco art exhibit that invites spectators to take part by “dressing to transgress” features the work of CSU Monterey Bay faculty members. “Glamorgeddon: The Spectacle,” curated by V...

SAAC raises record amount for Make-A-Wish Foundation

Student-athletes at CSU Monterey Bay hosted an evening of fun for their fellow students while celebrating National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week in mid-October. The Student Athlete Advi...

SCREEN PLAY

. . . The Monterey Bay Film Society raises funds for an outreach program that connects local teenagers – many of whom can be described as "underserved" or "at-risk" – with mentors from CSU Mont...

SEEDS OF SUCCESS

When a CSU Monterey Bay student’s capstone project is completed, local residents will be able to grow their own food, with help from an unlikely source. Heather Cunningham is working to set...

SNS Associate Professor Corey Garza Elected to SACNAS National Board of Directors

SEASIDE, Ca., Dec. 6, 2017 – CSUMB School of Natural Sciences associate professor Corey Garza has been named to the national board of directors for the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/His...

STATEMENT VICTORY

CSUMB picks up big win over defending conference champs UC San Diego Renee Jimenez's mentor when she got into coaching was Stanford Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveer. – Monterey Herald, Jan. 1...

STUDENTS IN A JAM

Upward Bound, Talent Search participants learn teamwork at Summer Jam Kevin Martinez will have to make some tough decisions about his education when he graduates from Soledad High School in 2016....

STUDY HALL

New library is all things to all people From the moment it opened at 8 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2008, the Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library has been the center of student life at Cal State Mo...

SUNDANCE KID

CSUMB alum makes return trip to film festival A pair of short films made on an iPhone have put a graduate of the Teledramatic Arts and Technology program at CSU Monterey Bay on the stage of the...

SUSTAINABLE STYLE

Clothing designer Alice Wu visits campus April 18 For more than a decade, Alice Wu, half of the fashion design team Feral Childe, has been designing original and unusual clothing. Wu will vis...

Salinas Center for Arts and Culture Hosts Children's Pop Up Museum

SEASIDE, Ca., June 8, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Salinas Center for Arts and Culture hosted the MY Town Pop-up Children’s Museum with a kickoff First Friday even...

Salinas City Council honors CSUMB

Feb. 10, 2010 President Harrison accepts plaque for University Promise program The Salinas City Council gave President Dianne Harrison a plaque of commendation Tuesday in appreciation for CSU...

Salinas hopes to turn farm workers’ children into computer scientists

Dario Molina’s alternative life scrolls by on both sides of Highway 101 north: acre upon acre of lettuce, spinach, heartbreak . . . He was awarded a Matsui Foundation scholarship to the new com...

Salinas resident earns CSU Trustee Award

Cal State Monterey Bay sophomore Jesus Ochoa Perez has been chosen for a California State University Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. He and the other award winners were honored Sep...

Salinas sixth-graders take the college pledge

Approximately 500 sixth-graders filled the ballroom of CSU Monterey Bay’s University Center on Dec. 8, radiating energy and enthusiasm. As master of ceremonies, it was up to admissions office...

Salinas student lands internship in D.C.

Jesse Reyes of Salinas is determined to go from fixing trails to civic trailblazing when he returns home after an internship in Washington, D.C. The environmental studies major is working and s...

SalomeJens

Posted on Nov 17, 2006 Actress Salome Jens brought the poetry of Anne Sexton to the World Theater stage with her one-woman performance, About Anne, in November. The New York Times raved about th...

SalomeJens

Actress Salome Jens brought the poetry of Anne Sexton to the World Theater stage with her one-woman performance, About Anne, in November. The New York Times raved about the play, calling it "a ...

Sam Farr to Give Keynote Address at CSUMB’s 21st Commencement Ceremony

SEASIDE, Calif., April 24, 2017 – Sam Farr will give the keynote address to graduates at CSU Monterey Bay’s 21st commencement ceremony at CSUMB May 20, 2017. Farr, despite opposition at the...

Sand dunes lurk deep beneath bay discovery could help limit beach erosion

Posted on Dec 13, 2006 They are creeping along the bottom of Monterey Bay, hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. In the cold blackness, they stretch up to 15 feet high and 200 feet long. Blu...

Santa Cruz artist connects the bots

Margo Mullen continues to attract attention – and commissions – with her robots. The 2006 graduate of CSU Monterey Bay’s visual and public art program created a pair of robots for a public ...

Santa Cruz attorney donates research vessel to CSUMB

Paul Meltzer, a Santa Cruz attorney, has donated his 46-foot Hatteras sport fishing yacht to CSU Monterey Bay for use in the university’s marine science program. The boat will be renamed “H...

Santa Cruz lawyer donates boat to CSUMB

The lives of Santa Cruz attorney Paul Meltzer and his great-grandfather, Harold Heath, barely overlapped, but the legend of the marine scientist and his adventures at sea lived on in the family...

Saturday: Music students' spring concert

California State University, Monterey Bay's annual spring concert will be held Saturday, April 30 at 7 p.m. in the World Theater on Sixth Avenue. The public is invited to this free event. T...

Sayad invited to make presentation in China

Faculty member's book first human sexuality text to be published there CSU Monterey Bay lecturer Barbara Sayad is about to make her first visit to China, courtesy of a human rights organization. ...

Scholar's Long Road

It was about an 80-minute walk for Jose Hernandez from his home to his middle school in the village near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. . . . Hernandez traveled more than 1,800 miles from his hometow...

Scholar: LGBT student data needed

Assistant Professor of Psychology Shannon Snapp is part of a national team that concluded more data are needed to determine how gay students fare in schools when it comes to discipline. – Mont...

Scholarship fund makes headlines

Awards surpass $1 million mark After former Los Angeles Times photojournalist Alwin Krause died in 2002, his wife, Marian Krause, thought about how she could honor him. She also wanted to pay...

Scholarship named for local nurse

The Rotary Club of Monterey Pacific has established the Nora Walsh Nursing Scholarship at Cal State Monterey Bay. It will award $1,000 annually to a nurse graduating from Monterey Peninsula ...

School Bytes

You may know that the annual Together with Love Run/Walk is taking place today. What you may not know is that a CSUMB student designed the logo. – Monterey Herald, Feb. 10, 2013

School board colloquium

Public invited to talk with decision-makers The College of Education at Cal State Monterey Bay will hold a colloquium with members of local school boards on April 28. The event will be held a...

School of Humanities & Communication Recognized for Integration of Civic Responsibility

SEASIDE, Ca., Oct. 25, 2017 – California State University Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) School of Humanities & Communication (HCOM) was recognized today by The Association of American Colleges a...

School reformer to speak in Salinas

May 4, 2010 ***May 17 talk sponsored by Rethinking Schools of CSUMB *** Renowned school reformer Deborah Meier will present a talk at Oasis Charter Public School in Salinas at 6 p.m., May 17. The...

Science camp offers girls hands-on learning

. . . Camp SEA Lab – SEA stands for Science, Education and Adventure – offers a series of summer programs in conjunction with CSU Monterey Bay that use education resources on the Central Coast....