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Bringing movement to the classroom
Nick Centino has students meditate and stretch at the start of each class to prepare them to absorb the material.
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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.
Spotlights
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