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Spreading reading joy and encouraging students
While attending CSUCI, Damaris Juarez always had a favorite campus spot to study-the John Spoor Broome Library.
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From classroom to conservation: a career in National Parks
Before she took a course called “The National Park” during her junior year at CSUCI, Iliana Espinoza had never been to a national park.
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Alumna makes an impact in behind-the-scenes care
Her master’s degree in biotechnology and bioinformatics at CSUCI is what enabled her to move seamlessly into management at one of the…
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Championing math and martial arts
Math alum is successful at work and in the studio
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Alumna launches NGO
Alyson Lucas was inspired to lead with purpose after her experience with the Peace Corps in Madagascar.
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Becoming Gabrielle
Nicknamed “Gabby” when she and her friends hung out on the streets, 2023 Distinguished Alumni “Gabby” Vignone now goes by…
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Alum brings positive to change to Port Hueneme
Bobby Martinez is the mayor of Port Hueneme, teaches math full time at Frontier High School and is launching a business for an app he…
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Alumna serves community through crime scene investigation
Dennise Hernandez was one of three people hired out of hundreds of applicants to restart the Fingerprint Unit with scientifically trained…
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Biotech alum has his eye on curing blindness
CSUCI alumnus Mohamed Faynus is at the helm of some promising research for blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration.
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Alum hopes to use MS degree to help home country
Oleksandr Nikolenko found his calling in Computer Science and wants to use the skills he's learned to help his home country.