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Two ÌÇÐĶ¯Âþvlog alumni, Adriana Melgoza and Patricia Cruz, have joined the Community Foundation for Monterey County. The foundation has economically supported the county for over 75 years, and in 2020, it granted a record $27 million to the community.

California State University, Monterey Bay students received over $4 million of federal emergency relief funding last Monday, March 15. Specifically, 5,433 students received between $200 and $800, totaling $3,328,400; and 313 DACA and international students received Institutional Emergency Relief aid, totaling $121,800.

“My heroine is Marie Curie,” says Aparna Sreenivasan. “I recently found out that she has the same birthday as me.”

Katherine Kantardjieff joined CSU Monterey Bay in July 2020 as provost and vice president of academic affairs. She previously served as the founding dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at California State University, San Marcos, and the chair of the Department of Chemistry at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to those positions, she taught at CSU Fullerton for 20 years. She holds a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, LA.

Message from Eduardo M. Ochoa, President, California State University, Monterey Bay on March 9, 2021

ÌÇÐĶ¯Âþvlog has earned inclusion into the 2021-22 First-gen Forward cohort of higher education institutions by the Center for First-generation Student Success.

Last year, when COVID-19 began to spread across the country, eventually encroaching into Monterey County, it shut down public gatherings, including concert performances. Live music has been almost entirely absent from our cultural landscape since.

The partnership between the Monterey County chapter of the NAACP and ÌÇÐĶ¯Âþvlog celebrated its 10th anniversary by honoring community leaders and social justice advocates. Three ÌÇÐĶ¯Âþvlog students received awards in the Youth Black Excellence category, and two employees received African American Advocate and Champion awards.

CSU Monterey Bay provides over 7,000 students an extraordinary opportunity to learn on a residential campus just one mile from the shores of beautiful Monterey Bay. The university offers 25 unique and sought-after degree programs in six colleges.

ÌÇÐĶ¯Âþvlog landed among Study.com’s top schools in their rankings of the nation’s best 4-year hospitality management bachelor degree programs.