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A key Cal Poly Humboldt resource, COMPASS supports diversity in STEMM by facilitating retention and academic excellence of students who are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine including low income and first generation college student groups. 

With your generous support, we can continue to diversify and improve STEMM fields by empowering students to become leaders who give back to their communities, society, and future generations while strengthening connections with their heritage and culture. 

We are grateful to receive any support that will ensure COMPASS students continue to receive the highest-quality resources and opportunities in key areas:

  • Academic & Research support services
  • Career and graduate school mentoring
  • Bridge building with STEM professionals, tribes, and communities
  • and other resources that may not be met by funding such as scholarships and student research costs

Your donation represents a collaboration with COMPASS to help underrepresented students along a path to graduation and a career in STEMM enabling them to create a more sustainable future for our planet.

Our Alumni

Forestry B.S., INRSEP, 1994

Nolan Colegrove (Hupa)

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Nolan Colegrove Portrait

Practitioner of tribal ceremonies including Deerskin Dance, Jump Dance and Brush Dances, and caring for his people. Following the words of his ancestors, “Keep these dances going no matter what.” 

Fisheries Biology, B.S. (Freshwater) 2015, Natural Resources M.S. (Fisheries), INRSEP, 2018

Keith Parker (Yurok)

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Keith Parker

Keith is the Senior Fisheries Biologist for the Yurok Tribe and lectures at Cal Poly Humboldt. 

Environmental & Natural Resources Sciences M.S., INRSEP, 2019

Irene Vasquez (Miwok/Paiute)

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Irene Vasquez

Irene currently works for the United States National Parks Service in *Yosemite National Park as a Cultural Ecologist where she strives to restore tribal stewardship and manages an Indigenous conservation work crew the “Yosemite Ancestral Stewards.”

Physics B.S. & Applied Mathematics B.S., 1997

Corey Gray (Siksika Nation Blackfoot)

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Corey Gray
  • 2017, Team Awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on black holes
  • 2015, LIGO confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves over a century ago. LIGO's discovery marked the first time gravitational waves were directly detected, the first direct observation of black holes, and the first confirmation that binary black hole systems exist in the universe. This discovery meant a whole new way of observing and learning about the universe and ushered in an entirely new field of scientific inquiry, gravitational-wave astronomy
  • 1998-Currently, Senior Gravitational Wave Detector Operations Specialist, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Washington