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• President Qayoumi and the Campus Climate Committee selected two people from the College of Social Sciences for the first Arthur Dunklin Diversity Awards. Ms. Yan Yin K. Choy received the student award, and she is undergraduate in Environmental Studies. Ms. Maribel Martinez received the Staff award for her work with the Associated Students. She is a graduate student in Applied Anthropology. Congratulations from your College.


• Salzburg Inspires Young Alumna to Pen “The Human Condition” Play
  
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• SJSU Scores Top Prizes At CSU Research Competition
  "Darci Arnold" receives the first place award in the interdisciplinary category from Fresno State's Vivian Vidoli at the CSU Research Competition in Fresno
  
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• Coss Awards and Scholarship Recipients 2011

Gerald Wheeler Scholarship - Deanna Rivas (Behavioral Science)
Inez and Donald Burdick Scholarship - Katie Louey (Sociology)
Charles Burdick Burdick Scholarship - Jessica Murphey (Environmental Studies)
SJSU Alumni Association - Julianne Meyer (History)
Global Studies Study Abroad - Christine Martinez
SJSU Salzburg Scholar - Maaheem Akhtar(Psychology)
SJSU Salzburg Scholar - Alberto Gutierrez (Communication Studies)
SJSU Salzburg Scholar - Katie Louey (Sociology)
SJSU Salzburg Scholar - Eva Roa (Economics)

Awards Celebration/Reception is on FRIDAY , April 29th at 3:30 in WSQ 207.
Honors Convocation will follow in the Event Center at 6:00 p.m


• Master of Urban Planning (MUP) student Sarah Abel has been selected to receive the 2010 Einsenhower Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration.
  

  The objective of the Eisenhower Fellowship Program is to attract the nation's brightet minds to the field of transportation.

  
  

  Sarah is the first one among MUP Students to win this very competitive national award. Congratulations to Sarah!!!

• Master of Urban Planning student Justin Meek has won this year's Student Planner Award
  
  

  Students in the Urban Planning Department's Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 ubran planning studios have won the Planning Achievement Academic Award from the American Planning Association (APA) California Northen Section.

  
  

  The awards committee recognized Justin's impressive academic and professional achievements, and students' professional grade report and collaborative neighborhood planning approach as they completed their Alviso Community Assessment and Urban Design Analysis.

  The awardees will be honored on May 14th at the APA California Northen Section Awards Ceremony in San Fransisco.

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Yvette Szabo and Dr. Steven Del Chiaro (Gerald Wheeler Scholarship)

Russell Joyce and Prof. Bruce Olszewski(Charles Burdick Scholarship)

Albertina Lopez and Dr. Elena Klaw (Inez and Donald Burdick Scholarship)

Ann Scott and Dr. Mary Pickering (COSS Outstanding Thesis)

Kristin Kaiser and Dr.Sheila Bienenfeld   Charise Parker and Dr. Patrick Ferraro                   

 (SJSU Alumni Association Scholarship)

Michael Espero and Dr. Michael Conniff

(COSS Dean's Study Abroad and International Field Work Scholarship)

Martiza Martinez     Dr. Bill Reckmeyer       Grace Redmond       

 (COSS SJSU Salzburg Scholars) 

• Environmental Studies Graduate Student, Robin Putney, Receives 2009 SJSU Outstanding Masters Thesis Award!

Robin Putney's Master of Science thesis in Environmental Studies, "Customary Marine Tenure and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Palau," is one of two master’s theses chosen from across campus for SJSU's 2009 Outstanding Thesis of the Year Award.

This project documented the value of traditional systems of fisheries management to Palauans, and discussed how these systems can be incorporated into Western natural resource management policies. The research is exemplary in its detailed description of previously undocumented natural resource management techniques practiced by the indigenous people of Palau. Additionally, Robin's rigorous application of ethnographic methods to capture information, which is rapidly being lost due to the influence of globalization, paints a vivid picture of a small island nation’s struggle to preserve two of its most precious assets: its marine resources and its unique ethnic heritage.

As thesis committee members, Dr. Katherine Cushing and Dr. Gary Klee, from Environmental Studies, were instrumental in advising Robin on this unique research. Congratulations to Robin on her achievement!

more on Robin Putney's Thesis


One of our very own staff members and student, Ms. Erlinda Yanez, (Mexican American Studies), a major in Behavior Science and Sociology will be receiving the award for the University's Commencement 2009 Outstanding Graduating Senior. Only two graduating seniors of the entire graduating class receive this prestigious award. Congratulations Erlinda!

• Recepients for 2009 Scholarship

SJSU Alumni Association Scholarship: Jason Amarante (Sociology major); Wei-Ju Chen (Psychology major)

Gerald Wheeler Scholarship: Julissa Duenas (Psychology major)

Charles Burdick Scholarship: Hants Williams (Psychology/Behavioral Science major)

Dudley Moorhead Scholarship: Paul N. Hierling (Urban Planning major)

Inez and Donald Burdick Scholarship: Jesus Gomez (Political Science major); Steven Davison (History major); Angelina Loyola (Sociology major)