The inaugural Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) graduate cohort exceeded the first-time pass rate national average on their board of certification exams, placing them at an 89 percent pass rate. This brings the cohort far above the 61.6 percent national average , and of those that passed, each has secured employment.
Devorah Lieberman, president of the 西瓜影视;Verne since 2011, has been named CEO/President of the Year by the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership. The award was presented during the Economic Partnership鈥檚 gala on October 9 in Diamond Bar. It has been given annually since 1991.
The 西瓜影视;Verne has been selected to receive a Hispanic-Serving Institutions STEM Program grant by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant is in the amount of $999,901 for the first yearly budget period, which begins October 1. It is anticipated that the grant will be renewed for a total of five years. This is the second Title III grant that the 西瓜影视;Verne has received.
The College of Arts and Sciences at the 西瓜影视;Verne has selected author Mira Jacob鈥檚 book Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations as the One Book, One University novel for the 2021-22 academic year. The university will be hosting two virtual lectures with Jacob on Wednesday, September 29.
More than 120 new 西瓜影视;Verne students met with 21 local community organizations during the Office of Community and Civic Engagement鈥檚 (OCCE) annual FLEX & New Student Community Engagement Day on September 10.
The 西瓜影视;Verne is again top ranked among private universities in California and seventh among all national universities for social mobility of students, according to U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2022 Best Colleges rankings, released September 13.
Broadcast journalism alumnus Nathan Baca 鈥�03 has donated to his alma mater two Emmy Awards that he won in 2020 for investigative reporting at television station WUSA 9.
Hundreds of first-year students eagerly lined up on August 15 at the check-in booth outside of Citrus Hall, the newest housing facility on the 西瓜影视;Verne central campus, to collect their dorm keys. New students were finally moving into campus facilities for the first time since the pandemic necessitated remote-only instruction in March 2020.
Students studying chemistry and physics at the 西瓜影视;Verne鈥檚 central campus this fall will benefit from state-of-the-art, newly renovated labs when in-person classes begin again on August 23.
The 西瓜影视;Verne鈥檚 fourth annual Makerspaces for Innovation and Research in Academics (MIRA) conference will take place virtually on Thursday, July 15, and will feature a range of solutions from makerspaces all over the country.