2013-2014
Triple A’s: Awards, Accomplishments and Achievements
Current MBRS & MARC Students
Geraldy Eisman- (MBRS)
Cesar DeLeon- (MBRS/MARC)
Melissa Cervantes- (MARC/MBRS)
Vincent Salazar- (MBRS)
Anthony Jones- (MBRS)
Jeff Guevara- (MARC)
Arisdelzy Villanueva- (MARC)
Accepted to the University of California Merced PhD
Program in Psychological Sciences, Fall 2014
2014 Outstanding Psychology Student Award
2014 Student Research Day Winner. Selected to Present
at the Statewide Competition
Accepted to the University of Southern California PhD
Program in Chemistry, Fall 2014
Awarded USC Research Doctorate Fellowship
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2014 Student Research Day Winner. Selected to
Present at the Statewide Competition
2013 Summer Research Program- Kellogg School of
Science and Technology at The Scripps Research, SURF
Program
Educational Opportunity Fellowship from Indiana
University
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Society
CSUDH Summa Cum Laude
Accepted to MA Program in Public Health at Indiana
University, Fall 2014
Awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Undergraduate Scholarship (UGSP) for 2013 - 2014
2014 Lois Chi Scholarship Awardee
Accepted to USC's Keck School of Medicine Bridging the
Gap Summer Research Program
Accepted to California Institute of Technology MURF
(Summer) Program
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Received funding support to attend and present at the
NOBCChe West Regional Meeting, March 21-24, 2014
Accepted to Yale University NSF MRSEC at Yale (CRISP)
REU Fellowship Program
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2014 Student Research Day Winner
Accepted to UCSD STARS Summer Research Program
Accepted to 2014 UCB NSF REU program Cell,
Developmental and Evolutionary Biology
Accepted to The University of Texas at San Antonio COS
Summer Research Program
Victor Bell- (MARC)
Destinie Thompson- (MARC/MBRS)
Abraham Ruiz- (MBRS)
Elizabeth Grotemeyer- (MARC)
Chelsea McElwee- (MBRS)
Taline Shishoian- (MBRS)
Brittany Tillman- (MBRS)
Cassandra Maddux- (MBRS)
Jose Lara-Ruiz- (MBRS)
Kumar Tiger- (MBRS)
Accepted to the 2014 Eugene and Ruth Roberts
Summer Student Academy at the City of Hope
2014 Student Research Day Winner
2013 Summer Research Program at Washington
University at St. Louis, AMGEN Scholars Program
MPH Program at Indiana University Fairbanks School of
Public Health for the fall of 2014
2014 Student Research Day Winner
2013 Summer Research Program (SROP) at the
University of Iowa
Accepted to the 2014 American Psychological
Association's Summer Science Fellowship (SSF) program
at George Mason University
2014 Student Research Day Winner
2014 Lois Chi Scholarship Awardee
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Invitation to Psi Chi Honor Society
2014 Student Research Day Winner. Selected to
present at the Statewide Competition
Invitation to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2014 Student Research Day Winner
Publications (see pub table)
Accepted to UC San Francisco’s 2014 Summer Research
Program
Accepted to Emory University’s 2014 Summer
Research Program
Accepted to UC Santa Barbara’s 2014 Summer Research
Program
Selected for the Undergraduate Toxicology Education
travel award to attend the Undergraduate Education
Program at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society of
Toxicology (SOT) in Phoenix, AZ.
Accepted to CSUN MA Program in Clinical Psychology
2014 Outstanding Psychology Student Award
Publication (see pub table)
2014 Student Research Day Winner
Awarded the CSULA Bridges to the Doctorate
Fellowship
Accepted to CSULA Biology Master’s Program
2013 Summer Research Program at Rutgers University
2014 Student Research Day Winner
John Gibson- (MBRS)
Donna James- (MBRS)
2013 Summer Research Program at Rutgers University
Research in Science and Engineering (RiSE) at Rutgers
and REU
Accepted to the MA Program in Human Factors and
Applied Cognition in the Department of Psychology at
George Mason University
Summer Research Program- NASA: Center for Human
Center Factors in Advanced Aeronautics, NASA-CHAAT
Summer Internship Program
Summer Pre-Doctoral Workshop for Students of Color
at USC, July 21-24 2013
Former MBRS & MARC Students
Hugh Leonard- (MBRS)
Aria Miller- (MBRS)
Teresa Ramirez- (MBRS)
Monique Turner- (MBRS)
Octavia Askew- MBRS/MARC)
Ph.D. Program at UAA-UAF in Clinical Community
Psychology
Defending dissertation Feb 2014 (Loma Linda
University, Public Health)
Completed PhD, December 2013
Enrolled in PhD Program at Alliant University, Fall 2013
Enrolled in PsyD Program at the University of Phoenix,
2013