The Office of Communications and Media Relations tells the stories of Dominican University of California and promotes awareness of the University.
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Sarah Gardner, executive director of Communications and Media Relations
The Diversity Action Group (DAG), a standing committee of faculty, staff, administration, and students, has developed the framework of Dominican’s new Diversity and Inclusion Plan. DAG’s work...
Dominican University of California has received a $1 million gift that will support the University’s response to COVID-19 while also seeding a wide range of new initiatives with particular support for...
Not being able to physically visit Ireland this summer did not deter Dr. Karen McCarthy, assistant professor of Occupational Therapy, from providing her students with a deep dive into the social...
For Dr. Daqing Zhao, former director of Advanced Analytics at Macys.com, the opportunity to teach in Dominican’s new Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program and join his friend, Dr...
School of Liberal Arts and Education
When English and History double major Monica Barry ’20 was selected to attend Oxford University in 2019 as a recipient of the Thomas and Joanne Peterson Endowed Scholarship for Dominican Scholars at...
Allison Kustic ’21 was only a few weeks into her new internship, working in the office of Marin County Supervisor Katie Rice, when California’s shelter-in-place order was issued. Now, instead of...
Dominican’s Department of Education has partnered with the Marin County Office of Education to launch a professional development series to support Marin’s K-12 teachers with distance learning. The...
As a way to address stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis through art, Lynn Sondag, associate professor in the Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies, has created an online...
School of Health and Natural Sciences
Belle Penn ’20 created an impressive resume at Dominican. The chemistry major – who also minored in psychology and leadership – joined two research labs, worked as an IT specialist for a Marin-based...
The research skills and scientific concepts Katherine Reyes ’20 mastered in Dominican’s Department of Natural Sciences helped her land a competitive summer internship at the University of Chicago. Now...
As an Occupational Therapy major at Dominican, Salvador Chávez ’16 MSOT ’17 decided it would be best for him to apply his OT skills to helping people with mental health disorders. With May having been...
When Romisa Shakeriniasar moved to the United States from Iran in fifth grade, she worked so hard and was so determined to overcome language and cultural barriers that she received a Consistent...
Barowsky School of Business
With an MBA in Healthcare Leadership from Dominican — where she was able to advance her career goals while working full-time at Genentech — Harriet Perdikaris Reynolds is well prepared to enter the...
In 2004, the husband and wife team of Kevin and Joanna San Diego embarked on a journey to earn their MBA degrees. They took pre-requisite business courses in preparation for submitting applications to...
Aidan Vermeulen ’20 discovered that you don’t have to go far from home to get way ahead in college. A graduate of Analy High School in Sonoma County, Aidan was recruited to Dominican to play NCAA...
Dr. Rajeev Sooreea, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of International Business in the Barowsky School of Business, has received a 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to the Republic...
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Dominican has received a $1 million gift to support COVID-19 testing on campus plus Penguin Athletics #COVID19Response #Philanthropy #Colleges #NCAAD2 #MakeItYours #PacWest #PenguinPride #ThisIsDUC bit.ly/38HVXS5 https://t.co/vB55e50ZqR
Lizbet Estrada Rebollar of Novato is recent recipient of Marin #TeacherOfColor Scholarship at Dominican, a program designed to address shortage of teachers of color working in #MarinCounty public schools #Scholarship #MSEducation #ThisIsDUC bit.ly/2Oc6pI4 https://t.co/wHj6VgeASD
RT @Silver Waves Media: Congrats to Dominican (CA) assistant coach Keith Lai on being named one of 50 impactful assistant coaches in NCAA Divi…
