Soccer earns CCAA Player of the Week honors
Soccer player and senior Juan Carlos Bolanos earned California Collegiate Atheletic Association (CCAA) Player of the Week honors for the week of Sept. 11 - 17. Bolanos had a fantastic week in leading CSUDH to three important road conference victories. Against CS Bakersfield, he scored the first Toro goal en route to the 2-1 overtime win. Against Cal Poly Pomona, he scored the game-winner and the first two goals of the game during CSUDH's 4-1 win. And then against CS San Bernardino, Bolanos tallied a lone goal against the Coyotes. He is second on the team in scoring with 17 points with a team-high 7 goals while adding three assists. He earned the honor a second time Oct. 9 - 15 after leading the Toros to a pair of road wins over UC Davis and Chico State with a goal and three assists.
Music fraternity selected as outstanding chapter
The CSUDH chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity was recently selected as the Outstanding Chapter in the Pacific Southwest 1999-2000. Current chapter president Ruth Cuccia and junior Jun Kurasako were rewarded for their involvement in Mu Phi Epsilon with scholarships from the Palos Verdes alumni branch of Mu Phi Epsilon. Senior Heehyun Chung spent the summer studying and performing in Korea as a result of a Mu Phi Epsilon International Scholarship.
MBRS students invited to professional society and workshop
MBRS student Aria Miller, a graduate student in the master of science biology program has received a Minority Affairs Committee Travel Award to attend the December 2000 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. Miller is a research assistant in the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) program of which Laura Robles, professor of biology, is program director. Also, Miller was invited to participate in a Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology Evaluation Workshop, Sept.15-17 in Tucson, Arizona, along with Dr. Robles, who is her MBRS faculty advisor. Miller, along with fellow MBRS participants: graduate student Verticia Rederford, sophomore Teresa Ramirez and senior Josephine Mendoza spent the summer working on molecular biology research in the laboratory of Dr. Robles, along with Bridges students Luis Sanchez, El Camino College and Glenda Hill, Compton Community College. Senior Fatima Rivas, a USTAR student working in the laboratory of Dr. Robles, participated in a summer research experience at Stanford University.
Clinical science students receive national recognition for research presentation at nuclear medicine and cytotechnology society meetings
Three spring 2000 graduates of the clinical sciences program, nuclear medicine technology option, presented their research at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Saint Louis in June 2000: Derek Walker, Tri Tran and Kiarash Rezvani. Walker and Rezvani received national recognition for their research presentations, Rezvani winning second place for his research presentation and Walker winning third place. In the cytotechnology program, graduate student Lisa Troncoso was recognized by the American Society for Cytotechnology with a third place award for her case study, and Priscilla Benavides, also a graduate student, received the Stephen M. Strigle Award from the California Association for Cytotechnology.
Clinical science students co-author web-based publications
Harleen Jaggi and Ihab Abumuhor, graduate students in the clinical science program, co-authored two web-based publications with Ellen Hope Kearns, professor of health sciences. Jaggi co-authored "Coronary Artery Disease" and Abumuhor co-authored "Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura." Both of these articles are available on the Virtual Health Care Team web site, www.vhct.org.
Communications major selected for scholarship
Glenda
Vaquerano, senior, communications, was selected as a Premio Scholarship Award
recipient by the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA). The $1,500
scholarships are presented by HPRA to recognize outstanding Latino college
students pursuing careers in communications. Vaquerano spent her summer as
an intern in the Public Relations Office for the American Red Cross Rio Hondo
Chapter, where she now works as a public relations assistant. After graduation,
she plans to pursue a career in public relations in the non-profit sector,
while working on a master's degree in public administration. Vaquerano was
honored at a reception on Friday, October 6.
Student Receives Honors for Film on Adult Literacy
CSUDH television arts major Pamela Chea won first place for her video commercial at the 10th annual CSU Media Festival, a competition among all 22 CSU campuses put on by the Chancellor's Office and the CSU Summer Arts Program to award the best student video/film productions in the CSU system. Chea was in her junior year when she produced her PSA video on The National Institute for Literacy in her TV Directing and Sound Design courses. She attended the three-day event at CSU Northridge on Oct. 13 - 15, along with 26 other CSUDH students.
Toro Forensics Team Makes a Strong Season Debut
The Toro Forensics team competed in its first competition of the season at San Diego State University Oct. 13 - 15. Advancing to their final rounds and receiving superior speaker ratings were Immanuel Fears, first place Poetry Interpretation; Elveria Buford, fourth place Poetry Interpretation and Tahasijan Taylor, fourth place Prose Interpretation. Not advancing to the final round of competition, but receiving excellent speaker ratings were Erica Roddy, Persuasive Speaking; Dieu To, Informative Speaking and Kiel Anderson, Poetry Interpretation. Donis Leonard, assistant professor, Performing & Digital Media Arts, is the coordinator of the Toros Forensic Team.
Six U-STAR Students Attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Held in Atlanta on Oct. 12, the annual meeting of SACNAS greeted 1,500 students to its convocation, including six Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR) students and two Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) program students. Two former U-STAR students, Kenneth Rodriguez and Luis Campus (from Professor Hernan Martinez's lab) presented posters. U-STAR student Lucio Loza was chosen for an oral presentation. The event brings together noted scientists, exhibitors, universities, graduate and professional schools, industry, professional societies and government finding agencies. Current U-STAR students attending were Sheila Asare-Bediako, Brenna Freeman, Marcel Belen, and Fatima Rivas. The director of the U-STAR program is Tom Landefeld, associate dean, College of Arts & Sciences. Students attending from the MBRS program were Josephine Mendoza and Teresa Ramirez. The MBRS program director is Laura Robles, professor of biology.
