Eight San Diego State University students with ambitions to work in higher education have been honored by the California State University Chancellor’s Office as 2016-17 Sally Casanova Scholars.
Each of the honorees receives a $3,000 scholarship, which is intended to help students explore and prepare for doctoral programs.
“This is a prestigious scholarship that is available to undergraduate juniors and seniors, as well as graduate students who have aspirations to teach or conduct research at the university level,” said
Cristina Sanchez, coordinator of Graduate Programs and Evaluations. “The scholarship provides funding for visits to doctoral granting institutions and helps scholars pay for application fees and entrance exams required for their Ph.D. programs.”
Each scholarship winner is working with an SDSU faculty member to develop their educational goals. This year’s SDSU Sally Casanova Scholars and their mentors are:
Amelia-Juliette Demery and
Kevin J. Burns, faculty mentor
Oscar Duran and
Marissa Vasquez Urias, faculty mentor
Jovana Gomez and
Jose Mario Martin-Flores, faculty mentor
Doria Hernandez and
Paul Kaplan, faculty mentor
Stephanie Mathew and Marissa Vasquez Urias, faculty mentor
Susana Najera and
Estralita Martin, faculty mentor
Stephanie Nguyen and
Vanja Lazarevic, faculty mentor
Magdalena Padilla and
Alda Blanco, faculty mentor
SDSU’s eight honorees are among 74
Sally Casanova California Pre-Doctoral Scholars for 2016-17. The Pre-Doctoral Program Advisory Committee selected the scholarship winners from a pool of more than 200 applicants across the CSU system.
The scholarship is named for
Sally Casanova, who founded the Pre-Doctoral Scholar Program in 1989 to increase diversity within the pool of university faculty by supporting the doctoral aspirations of students in the CSU system.
The CSU will open the online application for the 2017-18 Sally Casanova Scholar program in early December.