2024-2025 Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Scholars
Meet our 2024-2025 Scholars!
We are delighted to announce our 2024-2025 Sally Casanova Scholars! The Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars Program prepares students to apply for doctoral programs and provides access to a career in academia. In addition to scholarship funding, Scholars receive mentorship from faculty and participate in a funded summer research experience at doctoral granting institutions across the U.S.
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2021-2022 Scholars

Mariana Barrios
Faculty Mentor:
Clorinda Donato
Linguistics

Alejandro Beltran Cortez
Faculty Mentor:
Lily House Peters
Geography

Keilee Bessho
Faculty Mentor:
Cory Wright
Philosophy

Victoria Diaz
Faculty Mentor:
Wan Lee
Chemical Engineering

Jessica Flores
Faculty Mentor:
Nina Flores
Education

Marina Ganicheva
Faculty Mentor:
Andrew Jenks
History

Tiffany Gonzalez
Faculty Mentor:
Arturo Zavala
Psychology

Jessica Grifaldo
Faculty Mentor:
Deborah Fraser
Biology

Tom Ho
Faculty Mentor:
Cory Wright
Philosophy

Marco Marrufo
Faculty Mentor:
Sean Kwon
Electrical Engineering

Faculty Mentor:
Caroline Lopez-Perry
Education

Faculty Mentor:
Kristina Lovato
Social Work

Faculty Mentor:
Lora Stevens
Geology

Faculty Mentor:
Bill Pedersen
Psychology

Faculty Mentor:
Scott Wilson
Anthropology
2020-2021 Scholars

Joshua Acosta
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guotong Li
Doctoral Field of Interest: History

Andrew Alvarez
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Katarzyna Slowinska
Doctoral Field of Interest: Biochemistry

Cristien Arzate
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Klaehn
Doctoral Field of Interest: Physics

Alicia Castro
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bradley Pan-Weisz
Doctoral Field of Interest: Psychology

Everett Delfel
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bill Pederson
Doctoral Field of Interest: Psychology

Kylie Foster
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yada Treesukosol
Doctoral Field of Interest: Psychology

Lizbeth Jardon
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ted Stankowich
Doctoral Field of Interest: Organismal Biology

Kayla Landers
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kensaku Nakayama
Doctoral Field of Interest: Chemistry

Jacob Moran
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christopher Duerringer
Doctoral Field of Interest: Communication Studies

Grace Ocular
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Kim Kelly
Doctoral Field of Interest: Education - Dual Language Development

Lana Tran
Graduate
Faculty Mentor: Jyotsna Pattnaik
Doctoral Field of Interest: Early Childhood Education

Taryn Williams
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor: Becky Nash
Doctoral Field of Interest: Management and Operations & Supply Chain Management