Ethnic and Community Center Academic Achievement Awards

Ethnic and community center achievement awards honor affiliated graduate students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and serve as role models to undergraduate and graduate students. Each center determines its own selection process and criteria.

2013 Recipients

VPGE Black Community Services Center Graduate Student of the Year Award

Bertrade Mbom, Biology

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for El Centro Chicano y Latino

Elda María Román, English

VPGE Research Award for the Asian American Activities Center

Haerin (Helen) Shin, Comparative Literature

VPGE Graduate Feminist Scholar Award for the Women's Community Center

Meredith Townsend, PhD student, Geological and Environmental Sciences

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Stanford LGBT Community Resources Center

Brendan Hugo Hamel-Bissell, Electrical Engineering

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Native American Cultural Center

Sandra Tioswate Nicole Kjono (Mohawk), Electrical Engineering