The event serves as a special opportunity to highlight academic excellence, as well as recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of graduating students.
Veronica Morales, Trisha Rose, and Katherine Posada have been named the 2024-25 Outstanding Students for the College of Arts and Letters. They will be recognized during the college’s Spring Commencement ceremony, taking place at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Toyota Arena.
The university will host its Spring Commencement ceremonies on May 16-17 at Toyota Arena in Ontario.
Justus Baker-Postell, the Outstanding Undergraduate Student, and Monica Ybanez, the Outstanding Graduate Student, will be honored at the college’s commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 17, at Toyota Arena in Ontario.
The event marked the beginning of construction on a state-of-the-art facility designed to enhance support services for students and expand access to higher education in the Coachella Valley.
Jennifer Alford (geography and environmental studies) is the 2024-25 Golden Apple Award recipient; Thomas Chapman (cybersecurity) discussed credit card security; Justin Schneider (nursing) was interviewed about the Nursing Peer Mentoring Program; and Jonathan Dubois (anthropology adjunct) was interviewed about hawk symbolism.
CSUSB student Maurice Cruz is the recipient of the 2025 National Undergraduate Scholar Award from the American Kinesiology Association. This prestigious award honors exceptional academic achievement, leadership and a commitment to advancing the field of kinesiology and related disciplines.
Student volunteers with CSUSB’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program prepared more than 200 tax returns this season for underserved individuals and families, securing more than $227,000 in refunds and critical tax credits for the community.
The students, representing the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Vanuatu, brought home a Distinguished Delegation Award, making it 33 years the program has been honored with either an Outstanding Delegation or Distinguished Delegation award, the top recognitions bestowed by the National Model United Nations Conference.
The tour offered students from CSUSB’s Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the resort's dynamic operations while creating opportunities to network with over 40 professionals across various departments.
Matthew Markin was honored with the Charlie Nutt Award for Promoting and Supporting International Collaboration in Academic Advising, which recognizes an individual who made has made exceptional efforts to promote international exchange and/or cooperation between academic advisors and others in similar roles.
Josue Martinez, a senior biology major, is not only driven by his curiosity about the world around him, but also his desire for improvement, love of research and the freedom of testing new ideas, two of his professors say.