Profiles of Dominican
- Sydney Lewis
- Sydney Lewis was once a member of The Harry Potter Living Learning Community at Dominican yet, what she experienced as a Panetta Institute for Public Policy Congressional Intern in Washington, D.C. during the 2012 fall semester was beyond her wildest dreams.
- Jeffrey Van Sciver
- Prior to November of 2011, the last time Dominican LINES Ballet/BFA in Dance student Jeffrey Van Sciver went to New York City with his mother, Iris, it was to enroll in The Juilliard School. Due to injury, his studies at Juilliard were cut short. But, last November 1, he returned to Manhattan with his mom to mark another major significant step in his dance career: To collect a $10,000 grant from the Princess Grace Foundation.
- Stephanie Carnes
- When 5-foot-1 Penguins junior basketball player Stephanie Carnes enrolled at Dominican for the fall of 2009, she had no intention whatsoever of playing basketball. She was committed to being a student, not a student-athlete. She was a biological sciences major with a goal of going to medical school. That was her singular focus.
- Denis Maric
- It would appear that Dennis Maric might have been in an uncomfortable situation. He was the oldest (23 years old), tallest (6-foot-4) and the newest (transfer student) player on the 2011 Dominican University men’s soccer roster. Yet the stoic forward was strangely at ease because he’s been through much rougher patches of uncertainly in his life.
- Sara Pimentel
- When Dominican University of California soccer player Sara Pimentel stepped off a bus in Uganda during the summer of 2011, she never anticipated that she would receive a hero’s welcome. She never felt so much admiration or heard so many cheers for any goal she ever scored.
- Jacob Noisat
- Jacob Noisat had offers in the summer of 2011 to play basketball from Reno to Riverside. From San Diego to New Orleans. From Texas to Connecticut. He chose Dominican for three simple reasons. Location. Location. Location.
- Dr. Anita Hunter
- Dr. Anita Hunter has provided health care to about 90,000 people around the world, leading more than 550 students, faculty and health professionals on medical missions to Uganda, Ghana, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other medically under-served areas.
- Hunter Horenstein, Brian Sanchez
- Surrounded by a capacity crowd of about 1,000 fans at renovated Albert Field in San Rafael at a baseball game this summer, Dominican communications and media studies students Brian Sanchez and Hunter Horenstein, along with Dominican adjunct faculty member Stuart Horne, could not believe their good fortune.
- Katie Lake
- The journey Katie Lake made cross country to dance at Dominican University of California has a happy ending, yet it wasn’t without a dramatic detour. A waltz it wasn’t.
- Tammy Brawner
- When Tammy Brawner graduated from Dominican University of California with her MBA in 2011, she had a dream of traveling the world and someday working for Google. She never dreamed of playing for the Harlem Globetrotters.
- Fotonovela
- A project-based thesis by three Dominican Occupational Therapy graduate students is assisting Marin County agencies in breaking down cultural barriers in the Hispanic community to identify children on the autism spectrum and connect parents to support and services.
- Kendra Woodglass
- The magnitude of the moment and the magnificence of the public mural suddenly struck Kendra Woodglass and 13 other Dominican students in the summer of 2012 between West and Greenwich streets in New York City.
- Sandi Chin
- Since 2002, Sandi Chin has been the Director of Community Exhibitions at Dominican as well an Art history teacher whose behind-the-scenes actions have provided bountiful opportunities for students and helped showcase Dominican’s programs and campus.
- Dr. Vania Coelho
- There are about 300 samples of ocean coral in aquaria in the marine biology laboratory at Dominican. Dr. Vania Coelho, Associate Professor of Biology and marine ecologist, is working alongside her students to study each one of them in order to better understand how to halt the rapid decline of coral reef ecosystems worldwide. Time is of the essence.
- Dr. Laura Stivers
- Dr. Laura Stivers, Associate Professor of Ethics believes homelessness is a preventable problem in the United States. The solution begins with education about the root causes of homelessness, but the political will to change social policies that create inequality and poverty also will be necessary.
- Darcel Sanders
- From her new job at the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, Darcel Sanders now jokes that she was first drawn to Dominican in 2005 by the prospect of playing volleyball and the sight of deer wandering on campus.
- Jocelle Flores & Daniela Leyva
- Dominican students Jocelle Flores and Daniela Leyva have been selected to help launch a statewide program designed to support student leaders advancing service-learning and community engagement at California colleges and universities.
- Rosemarie Michaels
- Rosemarie Michaels, assistant professor and coordinator of the Liberal Studies and Multiple Subject Programs in the School of Education And Counseling Psychology at Dominican, has found a better way to enhance the student teaching experience of her students and ultimately improve the quality of teaching.
- Sharon McKenna & Paul Tasner
- Sharon McKenna, a single mother of 13-year-old twin boys, and Paul Tasner, a budding entrepreneur in his 60s, may appear to be unlikely duo yet they were a winning team in April at the annual Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
