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

Katherine Kantardjieff joined CSU Â鶹´å 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, Â鶹´å on March 9, 2021

Â鶹´å 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 Â鶹´å celebrated its 10th anniversary by honoring community leaders and social justice advocates. Three Â鶹´å students received awards in the Youth Black Excellence category, and two employees received African American Advocate and Champion awards.

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

Â鶹´å landed among Study.com’s top schools in their rankings of the nation’s best 4-year hospitality management bachelor degree programs.

SEASIDE, Ca., November 1, 2018

SEASIDE, Calif., Jan. 29, 2021 — CSU Â鶹´å’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) building has achieved LEED Platinum, the highest certification awarded by the nonprofit U.S. Green Building Council.