Cal State Channel Islands News

Serenity Melgar, 7, dances in front of the Oxnard High School Marching Band on Sunday at the California Strawberry Festival.

DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Family members and friends came out to support graduates at CSU Channel Islands on Saturday morning.

Community: It's not just a word. We here at CSU Channel Islands have never been more convinced of the reality of community.

Rachel Cartwright teaches biology at California State University Channel Islands and has been studying trends in habitat use in humpback whale mother-calf pairs in Hawaiian waters.

Author Lou Cannon looks at a photo of himself and President Ronald Reagan taken aboard Air Force One and on display in his Summerland home.

Nikki Wetton, a 28-year-old junior biology major from CSU Channel Islands , will spend the summer researching women cancer cell lines, thanks to a competitive grant from the CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology .

CSU Channel Islands will award an honorary doctorate degree to noted presidential biographer and White House correspondent Lou Cannon during the university's 2013 morning commencement ceremony on Saturday at the South Quad.

The university, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, was created out of a former mental hospital after years of wrangling by area leaders over a suitable location.

CSU Channel Islands will unveil its new Central Mall fountain from 9-11 a.m. this morning at 1 University Drive in Camarillo.

CSU Channel Islands will award an honorary doctorate degree to noted presidential biographer and White House correspondent Lou Cannon during the University's 2013 morning commencement ceremony, Saturday, May 18, at the South Quad.

Workers from San-Rock Pool Plastering in Santa Clarita apply waterproof plaster during completion of a recently installed four-tier Spanish Mission-style central mall fountain as part of a renovation plan at CSU Channel Islands on Wednesday.

CSU Channel Islands will showcase the research and collaborative work of faculty and students at the Fifth Annual Faculty-Student Research Forum on Saturday, May 11, from noon to 3:00 p.m. at the John Spoor Broome Library on the CI campus.

Students at Caliornia State University, Channel Islands hold up a giant thank-you banner in the school's student union courtyard on Monday to thank firefighters for their efforts in protecting the school from the Springs fire.

5:05 a.m.: Posted to the Ventura County Fire Department Facebook page: UPDATE - Firefighters were very busy overnight working to contain the fire that began yesterday morning near Camarillo Springs.

Last week, Southern California's wildfire season arrived early with several large blazes across the greater Los Angeles area.

Kelsey Erisman gets settled back into the Anacapa Village dorm at CSU Channel Islands as the campus reopened Sunday after the Springs fire forced an evacuation last week in Camarillo.

A firefighter keeps watch as the wildfire burns along a hillside in Point Mugu , Calif.

Karen Quincy Loberg An agriculture building near Lewis Road is seen burning after a wild fire swept through the area Thursday afternoon.

We are residents of University Glen in Camarillo. Yesterday and today have been surreal.

Fire season appears to have arrived early in Southern California as several large wildfires have authorities busy battling flames being spread by strong wind gusts.