Student Awards and Honors
History Students Earn Top Honors at Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference
In what is fast becoming an annual tradition, graduate students from California State University, Stanislaus, last month earned top honors at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society’s Northern California Regional Conference, winning first and third prize for their research papers.
CSU Stanislaus student Samantha M. Williams took the top prize at the conference with a paper entitled “Race, Politics, and Military Filibusters: Southern Attempts at Expansion in Antebellum America.” Williams will be invited to present her paper at the upcoming meeting of the American Historical Society’s Pacific Coast Branch.
See the Press Release for full details from the 2012 conference!
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Stanislaus Students and Faculty Win State Geography Honors
Full Press Release
For the fifth year in a row, Stanislaus students win awards at the statewide California Geographical Society (CGS) Meeting. Criminal Justice major Samantha Felice won first-place in the undergraduate competition for her paper “Spatial Fluctuations in Crime by Season: An Ode to Quetelet and the Green Crime Paradigm.” Her faculty mentor is Dr. Gregory Morris. Geography major Melissa Ball won third-place in the digital cartography competition for her interactive map entitled “CSU Stanislaus Online and Interactive.” Her faculty mentor is Dr. Austin Avwunudiogba. Geography majors Aldo Garcia, Michelle Machado, and Natasha Hanley (MAIS) each won travel awards to attend this year’s conference at University of California, Davis.
Founded in 1946, the California Geographical Society (CGS) is the oldest and largest state-wide organization devoted to enhancing the understanding of geography and promoting interaction amongst academic and applied geographers, as well as members of the general public who share an interest in geography. The organization hosts an annual conference each spring drawing over 400 professional geographers from around the state. http://www.csun.edu/~calgeosoc/.
Student research and faculty mentors were supported by:
Cameron Pallotta, GIS Lab
Julie Fox and Brett Forray, Office of Service Learning
CHSS Dean’s Teaching Initiative Grant
Office of Service Learning Mini-Grant
Instructional Support Mini-Grant
AHPCRC Grant
Dr. Angel Sanchez, Office of Institutional Research
See the Press Release for full details from the 2012 conference!
Click here for photos and all the details from 2011!
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Dean's List
Congratulations to these students for achieving a 3.50 or higher GPA for the previous term!
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Dean's Award of Excellence
Congratulations to our Outstanding Students! You represent the best and brightest among our students, and each program selected only its most exceptional student for this award.
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