Four members of this year's graduating class at Cal State Monterey Bay and an alumna have won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Josh Smith of Clovis, April Makukov of Fresno, Christina Villalobos of Salinas, Andrea Valdez of Ripon and Lydia Jennings of Santa Fe, N.M., were awarded the fellowships, which provide $138,000 to support three years of graduate education.

– Monterey Herald, May 7, 2015