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Now studying at the prestigious Near Eastern Studies doctorate program at UC Berkeley – one of the oldest and most distinguished in the country – Sanchez credits the faculty at CSUSB for helping him achieve his goal.
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Fernando Sanchez credits the foundation he received at CSUSB as playing a major role in getting into the prestigious Near Eastern Studies doctorate program at UC Berkeley -- one of the oldest and most distinguished in the country. CSUSB "helped me immensely, in more ways that I can say.”
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The Jack H. Brown College has named Danny Chung its Outstanding Graduate Student and Liliana Orellana Ojeda its Outstanding Undergraduate Student for 2020-21.
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The CSUSB College of Social & Behavioral Sciences is honoring two of its best as its Outstanding Graduate Student and its Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
![Paul Naik, 2020 Alumnus of the Year, College of Natural Sciences](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Paul_Naik%20CNS%202020%20Alumnus%20of%20the%20Year_22Dec2020.jpg.webp?itok=9MK2FDmi)
Paul Naik ’90, a top executive for biotechnology company Seattle Genetics, has been named the CSUSB College of Natural Sciences Alumnus of the Year.
![Luis Esparza (left), communication studies is the College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Graduate Student and Brenda Flores, philosophy, is its the Outstanding Undergraduate Student.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CALOutstandingGrads_Esparza_Flores_29June2020.jpg.webp?itok=Vaaha4rG)
The College of Arts and Letters has named Luis Esparza, communication studies major, as its 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Student and Brenda Flores, philosophy major, as its Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
![Sandra Cardenas (left) is the College of Natural Science’s 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Student and Marvin Macharia is its 2019-20 Outstanding Undergraduate Student.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CNS_OutstandingGrads_Cardenas_Macharia_29June2020.jpg.webp?itok=7HsWDYGs)
Sandra Cardenas has been named the College of Natural Sciences' 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Student and Marvin Macharia named the college’s 2019-20 Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
![D’Andra Johnson (left), clinical/counseling psychology, is the college’s Outstanding Graduate Student, and Ginny Park, psychology, is its Outstanding Undergraduate Student.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CSBS_OutstandingGrads_Johnson_Park_29June2020.jpg.webp?itok=7_aoC9DL)
D’Andra Johnson, clinical/counseling psychology, is the college’s Outstanding Graduate Student, and Ginny Park, psychology, is the Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
![Teoxihuitl Sintora (left) is the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration’s Outstanding Graduate Student, and Harman Dhillon is its Outstanding Undergraduate Student.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_JHBC_OutstandingGrads_Sintora_Dhillon_29June2020.jpg.webp?itok=1hsk8ix8)
Teoxihuitl Sintora, Outstanding Graduate Student, and Harman Dhillon, Outstanding Undergraduate, are the Jack H. Brown College’s Class of 2020 top students.