Seniors Julissa Castaneda, Onyeka Uzomah, and Sylvia Bonilla were accepted to participate in the Los Angeles Basin-California State University Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. Also, senior Erick Medina was accepted into the UCLA National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Summer Research Scholars program, funded by an NSF grant.