CSUCI’s B&TP Names Award Winners; Event Set for April 24

Camarillo, Calif., April 2, 2008—The 2008 Business & Technology Partnership (B&TP) Leadership Dinner, presented by the CSUCI Foundation and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, will be held on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at the Embassy Suites/Mandalay Beach Resort in Oxnard. This event honors three individuals with leadership awards and recognizes five students with scholarships provided by the B&TP.

Ruby Oertle, owner of Capistrano's Restaurant & Catering and Matisse Restaurant & Catering, has been named the 2008 Martin V. School of Business & Economics Business and Community Leader of the Year. Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli Foundation, is the 2008 Technologist of the Year. Geoff Dougherty, Professor of Physics at CSUCI, is the 2008 Faculty Leader of the Year. These awards recognize an outstanding business leader and a technologist from within the University’s service region of Ventura County, southern Santa Barbara County and northern Los Angeles County, and a CSUCI faculty member who has contributed to the goals of the Business & Technology Partnership.
 
Five $3,000 student scholarships will be awarded. The winners of this year’s scholarships are Jadonna Collier, nursing major and second year B&TP scholarship recipient; Pauline Kolic, chemistry major; Jaimee Morrison, math major and second year B&TP scholarship recipient; Elizabeth Thomas, biology/chemistry major; and Rene McMurray, nursing major. Eligible students are chosen from students who have transferred from community colleges to CSUCI and CSUCI students with junior status or above, in business and technology related majors.

Additional sponsors of the B&TP Leadership Dinner include Capistrano's Restaurant & Catering, Dennis and Joan Gaiser, Logix Development Corp., the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics, Pacific Coast Business Times, and Sheeler Moving and Storage.
 
Tickets for this event are $150 each and must be purchased in advance by visiting www.csuci.edu/about/btp or by contacting Eva Gomez, Executive Administrative Assistant for University Advancement, 805-437-3271.

For media inquiries about this event contact Ceal Potts, Communications Specialist at CSUCI, 805-437-8940 or cecilia.potts@csuci.edu.

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