Rotary Club of Santa Cruz awards scholarships
The Rotary Club of Santa Cruz recently awarded $76,000 in scholarship funds in support of area students. To be considered, students were required to go through an application and interview process and were selected based on a variety of academic and community factors. Awards were provided to 19 new applicants and 18 returning recipients.
This year's first-time scholarship recipients and their chosen colleges include:
• Santa Cruz High School: Ibeth Avalos Coss, Cabrillo College; Julian Kamos, Long Beach State; Bailey Manoff, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Julia Moore, Long Beach State: Michael North, University of Pennsylvania; Maria Vasquez-Vargas, University of San Francisco.
• Harbor High School: Jackeline Barrientos-Navarro, UCLA; Itzel Bastidas, UC Berkeley; Ava Carney, UC Berkeley; Daniel Espinoza, UCLA; Neva Lunine, UC Berkeley; Marissa Meagheang, Stanford; Morgyn Michelson, UCLA; Javier Mojica-Hernandez, UC Santa Cruz; Keyri Ortega-Cruz, UC Santa Cruz; Zulma Ramirez-Ortega, UCLA; Amaya Supanich-McCord, Willamette.
• Delta High School: Vivian Ruiz, Cabrillo College.
• UC Santa Cruz: Caroline Bahn, UCSC.
The Rotary Club of Santa Cruz scholarship program was established 38 years ago. The club has awarded more than $1 million to more than 760 local students.
Education
The following local students were honored for academic achievement:
• Kiana Gilbert, of Felton, was named to the honor roll for the spring 2022 semester at the University of Mississippi in University, Mississippi.
• Tyler Edwards, of Scotts Valley, was named to the dean's list for the spring 2022 semester at Lakeview College of Nursing in Danville, Illinois.
• Melinda Brown, of Ben Lomond, was named to the dean's list for the spring 2022 semester at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico.
Karen Miga honored
Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by TIME. The announcement was made May 23.
The TIME100 list is chosen by editors of TIME.
Miga and colleagues Adam Phillippy, Evan Eichler and Michael Schatz, led an international
team of scientists — the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium — to complete the first, gapless sequence of the human genome, according to a news release from UCSC. Parts of the human genome are now available to study for the first time, allowing researchers to better understand genetic diseases, human diversity and evolution, the release continued.
Miga joins some big names on the annual list. Others on the TIME most influential: Oprah Winfrey, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Emmett Schelling.
Herbelin joins alliance
Central California Alliance for Health on Monday announced Dr. Maurice Herbelin as the alliance's chief medical officer. The role was previously held by Dr. Dale Bishop.
Herbelin brings more than two decades of
health care experience to the role, including population health and valuebased care models, according to a release from the alliance. Most recently, Herbelin served as chief medical officer for Optum Market Performance Partnerships at UnitedHealth Group.
Herbelin received his medical degree from University of California, San Diego and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California. He participated in the Fulbright Scholar Program and studied at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Herbelin holds an executive MBA from California State University, Sacramento.