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.

2018 Recipients

VPGE Black Community Services Center Graduate Student of the Year Award

Sharese King, Linguistics

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for El Centro Chicano y Latino

Juan Pedroza, Sociology

VPGE Research Award for the Asian American Activities Center

Lucy Zhang Bencharit, Psychology

VPGE Graduate Feminist Scholar Award

Gigi (Sonia) Otálvaro, Theater and Performance Studies

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Stanford Queer Student Resources Center

Maryann Tung, Electrical Engineering and Bright Zhou, Medicine

VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Native American Cultural Center

Rosie Nelson, Education

VPGE Graduate Scholar Award for The Markaz: Resource Center

Koosha Nazif, Mechanical Engineering