News & Updates

News and Updates

• Congratulations to our 2023 & 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) recipients!:
  • Ahmed, Salma (NIH Bridge to Doctorate) -  UC Berkeley PhD student, 2023, Earth & Planetary Science
  • Gerson Ascencio (NIH Bridge to Doctorate) - Stanford PhD student, 2023, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
  • Sergio Gonzalez, Jr. (NIH U-Rise) - Vanderbilt PhD student, 2024, IGP Biomedical Sciences
  • Justin Mai (NIH-URISE) University of Idaho PhD student, 2024, Biology

• Alumnus Dr. Kristi Red Horse has been invited to join the National Academy of Medicine! Read more about this honor here: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/10/national-academy-medicin… and about her work and academic journey here: https://redhorselab.com/biography

• Professor Ivan Anastassov's lab had a recent publication, "Ultrastructural characteristics and synaptic connectivity of photoreceptors in the simplex retina of Little skate (Leucoraja erinacea)." Congratulations to the SEO scholars who are co-authors: Laura Magaña-Hernández, Jessamyn G. Fathi, Yaqoub Yusuf, Beatriz Rubio, and Priscilla E. Perry.

• San Francisco State University has earned a coveted place on a much-anticipated roster: the 2023–2024 Top 200 Colleges for Indigenous Students. Compiled and published annually by AISES for the Special College Issue of Winds of Change magazine, the Top 200 highlights schools like ours that understand the value of diversity.

• Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices - A segment of a September interview with alumnus Juan Mendoza, a Biochemistry Professor at the University of Chicago, discussing his efforts to improve diversity in STEM labs was featured in an evening news series. (Time stamp 21:21)
   
• To honor the 25+ years since the SEO programs were started at SF State, we made a brief video about the programs. See the video.