Graduate Awards 2022-2023

Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholars 2022-2023

The Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar Program is designed to assist students in preparing to enter PhD doctoral programs.  This outstanding opportunity has helped many former CSULB students open the door to doctoral study – some of whom are now professors at CSULB or other universities.

CSULB receives $3,000 from the Chancellor’s Office for each student who is selected as a Pre-Doctoral Scholar.  These funds are designed to enable the Scholar to travel to Ph.D.-granting institutions and professional meetings anywhere in United States.  Other eligible expenses include membership costs in professional organizations, applications fees, and other costs in applying to a doctoral program.  In addition, each Pre-Doctoral Scholar will have an opportunity to apply for a summer grant to work on an approved research program, typically at a University of California campus.  Each student applying to the Pre-Doctoral Program must select a CSU faculty sponsor who will be available to work with the student during the 2019-20 academic year in implementing a plan to prepare the student for enrollment in a doctoral program.

Scholars	Faculty Mentor
Antonio Arreguin	Dr. Maryam Haddad
Guadalupe Barragan	Dr. Sarah Arroyo
Jordie Conde	Dr. Jonathan O'Brien
Emily Doffing	Dr. Danielle Kohfeldt
Destiny Gilliland	Dr. Karissa Miller
Ashley Guerrero	Dr. Gary Hytrek
Julaina Juarez	Dr. Jacob Olsen
Stephen Kooshian	Dr. Caitlin Murdock
Fanuel Mendez	Dr. Andreas Bill
Evelyn Ortiz Soto	Dr. Kathryn Perkins
Thomas Page	Dr. Courtney Ahrens
Taryn Thrasher	Dr. Dennis Lopez
Tanner Whitlow	Dr. Nick Laskowski

Graduate Equity Fellowship 2022-23

The Graduate Equity Fellowship (GEF) provides financial support to master’s and doctoral students who contribute to diversity, advance equity, and/or promote the public good in their field of studyeither via scholarship, research, and creative efforts or via active engagement in programs or activities. The Dean of Graduate Studies annually awards approximately two Graduate Equity Fellows per college, to those students who have been nominated by a faculty member and received the support of the College Dean or designee.

Fellow	Graduate Program
Michelle Castillo	MS Biochemistry
Genecy Chopin	MS Criminology & Criminal Justice
Jack Hanson	MS Chemical Engineering
Anise Mansour	MS Physics
Tuyet-Suong Nguyen	MS Counseling, SDHE
Andriana Niederecker	MA Linguistics, Language Documentation & Description
Alitzah Oros	MA Art emphasis in Art History
Ariane Mica  Segismundo	MA Speech-Language Pathology
Shayan Sheikhrezaei	PhD Engineering & Computational Math
Evelyn Soto	MA Political Science
Azuki Umeda	MFA Dance
Aimee Vaquera	EdD Higher Ed. Leadership

Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Scholars 2022-23

The California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) provides an opportunity for exceptional students interested in working as scholars and teachers in the CSU to receive comprehensive support during their doctoral studies. The CSU has an ambitious goal of increasing graduation rates for all students while eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps. Fundamental to meeting this goal is supporting efforts to create a qualified and diverse faculty to meet the needs of the most ethnically and economically diverse student body in the nation. Since 1987, CDIP has supported 2,455 fellows pursuing doctoral degrees with mentoring, financial support, and professional development opportunities. Over 50 faculty members at CSULB were previous CDIP fellows.

CDIP Fellows receive mentorship from a CSULB faculty member to (a) support completion of their doctoral studies and (b) develop their potential for employment as a CSU faculty member.  They also have access to three CDIP grant opportunities (i.e., mini-grants, travel grants, and dissertation fellowships) and a loan that is forgivable at 20% per year of fulltime postdoctoral teaching in the CSU.

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Scholar	Diciplin/Degree	PhD Program	Faculty Mentor
Kimberly Sanchez	Public Health/Disparities/PhD	University of California, Merced	Dr. Melawhy Garcia
Kaitlyn Stormes	Education, Higher Ed/Org Change/PhD	University of California, Los Angeles	Dr. Avery Olson
Jessica Grifaldo	Cell & Molecular Biology/ PhD	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Dr. Paul Buonora