Recent Highlights

Undergraduate Opportunities That Can Change Lives

Under the direction of Dr. Sibdas Ghosh, chair of the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, students at Dominican are investigating current issues in biochemistry that have profound implications for protecting the environment and producing food for the world. Students are working to discover how Sudden Oak Death kills trees in California, looking for soil bacteria that help plants survive drought, and investigating how non-native plants spread in protected areas, threatening to wipe out native species.

New Science Center

A few years ago, Dominican University of California launched an ambitious program to expand its science program. As an essential component of the liberal arts curriculum, the sciences have always been important at Dominican. The University wanted to offer advanced opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research, gain professional credential before they even graduated, and prepare them for careers in science and medicine.