Catherine Robles FDFP Highlight

Catherine Robles transferred from Taft College to CSU, Bakersfield where she earned her BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and MS in Biology in the non-thesis track. As an undergraduate student at CSUB, she worked as a student lab assistant in a botany lab, volunteered at Mercy Southwest, and was the events coordinator for Kern Students for Medicine.

After she graduated with her BS, she worked as a substitute teacher for K - 12 in her hometown of Taft. She applied to the graduate program at CSUB, worked as a teaching assistant, and participated in the Graduate Student Club.

She is now a new lecturer at CSUB, where she instructs a lecture and several labs of an introductory biology course and a lab of integrated life science. In her free time, she enjoys baking, reading, listening to music, and going on walks with her family.