Ethnic and Community Center Academic Achievement Awards: 2017 Recipients
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.
2017 Recipients
VPGE Black Community Services Center Graduate Student of the Year Award
Kareem Edouard, Education - Learning Sciences & Technology Design
VPGE Academic Achievement Award for El Centro Chicano y Latino
Eli Moises Hernandez Diazgiron, Geological and Environmental Sciences and Luz Minerva Jimenez Ruvalcaba, Modern Thought and Literature
VPGE Research Award for the Asian American Activities Center
Renren Yang, Comparative Literature
VPGE Graduate Feminist Scholar Award for the Women's Community Center
Vanessa Seals, English
VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Queer Student Resources Center
Faaris (Fares) Akremi, Law
VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Native American Cultural Center
Mark Berger, Computer Science
VPGE Graduate Scholar Award for The Markaz: Resource Center
Osama El-Gabalawy, Medicine