CSUMB Science and Environmental Policy Division is now School of Natural Sciences (SNS)

The CSUMB Science and Environmental Policy Division has changed its name to the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). It will continue to be a part of the College of Science, together with ...

CSUMB Science and Environmental Policy is now the School of Natural Sciences

The CSUMB Science and Environmental Policy Division has a new identity. The division has changed its name to the School of Natural Sciences (SNS), and will continue to be a part of the ...

CSUMB Selected as Seal of Excelencia Finalist

SEASIDE, Calif., May 28, 2019 – Excelencia in Education, a national nonprofit dedicated to accelerating Latino student success, has selected California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) as...

CSUMB Selected to Host Architecture at Zero Competition in 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. August 10, 2018 — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) announced that the eighth annual Archite...

CSUMB Set to Host 23rd Annual Social Justice Colloquium

SEASIDE, Calif., April 8, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) is slated to host the 23rd annual Social Justice Colloquium beginning April 8 and concluding April 18, 2019....

CSUMB Set to Host 7th Annual Startup Hackathon

SEASIDE, Ca., November 1, 2018 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) is set to host the 7th annual Startup Hackathon weekend at CSUMB Nov. 2-4, 2018. This year’s theme is “Tech ...

CSUMB Set to Host 8th Annual Startup Hackathon

SEASIDE, Ca., October 31, 2019 – California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) is set to host the 8th annual Startup Hackathon a...

CSUMB Startup Weekend winner ready to roll

Brad Schoch wasted no time after graduation to start his business career. Schoch and his team won the competition with a website called Want2Learn, which connects teachers of any subject with p...

CSUMB Student Awarded USDA Scholarship

CSUMB student Mykayla Latronica has been selected to receive a $30,000 USDA Scholarship to help complete her degree in biology with a minor in mathematics. Latronica grew up in Los Banos an...

CSUMB Student Daniel Olivares Awarded U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to Study Abroad

CSUMB student Daniel Olivares is one of nearly 1,000 American undergraduate students from 386 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A...

CSUMB Student Erin Mansel Named Forbes Under 30 Scholar

SEASIDE, Calif., November 15, 2019 – CSUMB Cinematic Arts and Technology major Erin Mansel was among 1,000 students across the nation selected to the Forbes Under 30 Scholars Program this yea...

CSUMB Student Receives Hearst

Daniel de la Cruz, a senior at California State University, Monterey Bay, has received the prestigious William Randolph Hearst/CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. De la Cruz, who i...

CSUMB Student to Support Local Immigrant Communities with New Scholarship Program

SEASIDE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2017 -- Daisy Leon Melendrez, a CSUMB service learning student leader, has been selected as a Principal Community Scholar for her community project to provide informat...

CSUMB Takes Back the Night on March 5

March 1, 2010 The annual Take Back the Night speak-out and march to protest sexual violence will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, March 5, at CSU Monterey Bay. The event serves as a safe pla...

CSUMB Technology Camps Offered This Summer for Middle and High School Youth

Looking for something fun and educational for your middle school and/or high schooler? Cal State Monterey Bay is offering two, unique technology day camps this summer. Both camps are approximat...

CSUMB Undergrad Selected for Pre-Doctoral Scholarship

SEASIDE, Ca., August 1, 2019 – Selena Velasquez, CSUMB psychology senior, and Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) scholar, has been selected as Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Schola...

CSUMB Undergraduate Researchers Selected for Pre-Doctoral Scholarships

SEASIDE, Calif., July 10, 2018– Two CSUMB seniors have been selected as Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars for the 2018-19 academic year. Jordin Simons, a UROC scholar and environmental studi...

CSUMB Welcomes New Chief Diversity Officer

SEASIDE, Ca., June 18, 2018 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has officially welcomed Brian Corpening to serve as CSUMB’s new chief diversity officer as of June 18, 2018. Corp...

CSUMB Welcomes New Dean of Students

SEASIDE, Ca., April 20, 2018 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has officially welcomed Leslie Williams to serve as the new associate vice president (AVP) for student affai...

CSUMB Welcomes Students Back to Campus, Kicks Off 25th Year

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...

CSUMB accreditation reaffirmed

California State University, Monterey Bay will be accredited through 2019. After a process that took years and included two campus visits, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accred...

CSUMB acquires National Steinbeck Center

California State University, Monterey Bay and the National Steinbeck Center have completed a deal that will bring the university to the city of Salinas. Under terms of the deal, negotiated am...

CSUMB adding faculty for upcoming school year

With enrollment in the California State University system expected to top 450,000 for the upcoming school year, hundreds of new faculty members have been hired. At California State University, ...

CSUMB adds two more fully online graduate degrees

California State University, Monterey Bay will be among the first CSU campuses to offer degrees through the new Cal State Online, an initiative intended to expand access to fully online bachelo...

CSUMB advances to Super Regionals

It took an extra game, and a come-from-behind win, but CSU Monterey Bay's softball team is on its way to the NCAA Super Regionals. – Monterey Herald, May 11, 2014

CSUMB adviser earns USDA fellowship

Ejan headed to Washington, D.C. Jihan Ejan, a retention adviser with the Center for Student Success at CSU Monterey Bay, was chosen to participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Kika d...

CSUMB again named 'military-friendly school'

For the fifth consecutive year, CSU Monterey Bay has been named a “military-friendly school” by G.I. Jobs magazine. The list honors the top 20 percent of colleges and universities that are ...

CSUMB again named to Presidential Honor Roll

Feb. 25, 2010 California State University, Monterey Bay has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. Launched in 2006, the Community ...

CSUMB aims for zero-waste move-out

UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH LOCAL AGENCIES TO RECYCLE, REUSE Some useful – and valuable – stuff gets discarded during the rush to clean out residence hall rooms and move home for the summer. At ...

CSUMB alum offers holiday cheer for foster children

Emma Rodriguez, CSUMB student extraordinaire, garnered a lot of attention earlier this year for a book drive she sponsored to benefit foster care children. Now, she wants to help foster care yo...

CSUMB alumni 'Crash the Coast'

Aug. 29, 2010 Four CSU Monterey Bay alumni – all graduates of the Teledramatic Arts and Technology program – are part of a group traveling the California coast making a documentary film on surf...

CSUMB alumni named to magazine's 'New Faces' list

Filmmaker Magazine has honored CSUMB alumni Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck. The magazine, a quarterly devoted to independent film, named the pair to its annual list of "25 New Faces." –...

CSUMB among 'Best Places to Work'

CSU Monterey Bay can claim to be one of the best places to work in the county – for the third time in five years. That’s according to the Monterey County Business Council’s "Best Places to ...

CSUMB among 'greenest' schools

For the fifth consecutive year, CSU Monterey Bay has been named one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the country by The Princeton Review. CSUMB is featured in the 2015 ed...

CSUMB among greenest schools in nation

CSU Monterey Bay is one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Princeton Review. – The Salinas Californian, April 29, 2013

CSUMB among the best

Posted on Aug 31, 2005 Local college recruiters can now call California State University, Monterey Bay one of the nation's top 20 schools for fostering student success. A group of higher-education...

CSUMB analyst earns fellowship

Sathyan Sundaram, a research analyst with the office of Institutional Assessment and Research, will spend part of July attending a seminar near Washington, D.C. Sundaram has been selected f...

CSUMB and Hartnell Receive Collaborative $3.75M Department of Ed Grant

SEASIDE, Ca., November 21, 2018 – A collaborative project between California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and Hartnell College has been selected to receive funding under the U.S. Depar...

CSUMB and Monterey Jazz Festival Enter Educational Partnership in 2018

New Program Kicks Off March 5 with Tia Fuller and Marcie Chapa at CSUMB’s World Theater SEASIDE, Ca., February 6, 2018 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) and Monterey Jaz...

CSUMB and Regional Community Colleges form Pathways Partnership to Improve Student Outcomes

SEASIDE, Calif., September 26, 2018 – California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Cabrillo College, Hartnell College and Monterey Peninsula College have formed the Monterey Bay College P...

CSUMB announces $1M Osher gift

OLLI's adult education classes resume in January The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSU Monterey Bay, also known as OLLI@CSUMB, has been awarded $1 million by the Bernard Osher Foundation. ...

CSUMB announces the largest gift in university history

Launches public campaign to reach $100 million. SEASIDE, CA., May 12, 2020. Longtime Monterey Peninsula resident, Robert Darwin, has committed to a legacy gift for student scholarships to Calif...

CSUMB art historian to present Steinbeck lecture

July 2, 2010 Dr. Lila Staples, head of the museum studies program at CSU Monterey Bay, will present a seminar on "Steinbeck's Monterey as Painted by his Contemporaries" July 22 at the Monterey ...

CSUMB art students get hands-on at museum

San Francisco artist Andrew Schoultz has created a mural and a site-specific installation at the Monterey Museum of Art, with help from a trio of CSU Monterey Bay art students. His work, on...

CSUMB artist captures the spirit of Fort Ord

. . . Artist Enid Baxter Ryce lives on what used to be Fort Ord. As a faculty member in CSUMB's Cinematic Arts and Technology Department, she and her husband share a home in repurposed Fort Ord...

CSUMB artists exhibit capstone projects

. . . An eight-foot iPhone displaying a documentary on Ed Ricketts' Lab. . . this is just one of the ambitious art installations that will be on display during the CSU Monterey Bay Visual and P...

CSUMB athletes earn academic honors

CSUMB had a notable fall sports season when it came to academics. Thirty-two student-athletes were selected for CCAA all-academic teams. – The Salinas Californian, Dec. 19, 2014

CSUMB awarded $32 million grant to study climate change

CSU Monterey Bay will use the largest grant it's ever received to study how climate change impacts ecosystem processes, and develop products to help agricultural producers and land managers dea...

CSUMB awarded $8 million innovation grants

Published on March 20, 2015 The innovative work being done by CSU Monterey Bay was recognized by the state through its Awards for Innovation in Higher Education. CSIT-in-3, a program that all...

CSUMB awarded $8.6 million to boost teacher quality

CSU Monterey Bay has received one of 24 grants from the U.S Department of Education to recruit, train and support new teachers primarily in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM&#...