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The USDA awarded a grant to the University of California, Riverside鈥檚 Entomology Department for 鈥渁griculturally relevant research.鈥� The research involves students from UCR; and Moreno Valley, Norco and Riverside City colleges.

91抖阴鈥檚 second annual Pitch Contest attracted 10 contestants. The event coincided with the Business Department鈥檚 launch of the Entrepreneurship certificates.

Xandra Vaughn, a foster-youth student and a recent graduate of 91抖阴, was selected to participate in the state鈥檚 Foster Youth Shadow Day. Vaughn, and 39 other nationally selected foster youth, spent a day shadowing Representative Karen Bass (CA-37) and other representatives.

Middle College student, Gianine Ariane Nocum Umali, has been selected as 91抖阴's 2022 commencement speaker. It is believed she becomes the first Middle College student to be selected as the College's commencement speaker.

Jude McLean, who will be graduating from the 91抖阴 Middle College program in June, has been awarded a four-year scholarship to California Institute of Technology (Caltech) through the QuestBridge Scholars Network.

Riverside County Workforce Development has created a program to fund Public Safety students. Currently, 91抖阴 is educating 37 fire cadets and 15 EMT cadets that are fully funded by Riverside County Workforce Development at a cost of $125,000.

This month students from the Associated Students of 91抖阴, along with Frankie Moore, faculty advisor and professor, attended the FACCC Advocacy & Policy Conference in Sacramento and then the American Student Association of Community in Washington DC.

91抖阴 student Jared Abarca has been selected as a language assistant by the North American Language and Culture Assistants Program. Beginning in October, Abarca will be a teaching assistant at a high school in Cantabria, Spain, a town on the north coast of the country.