STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS MAKE CSU PROUD After serving as vice president for academic affairs in CSU’s Student Government Association, Paul All experienced American government in action as a summer intern in Washington, D.C. All, a junior majoring in finance, spent nine weeks in the nation’s capital as an intern in the office for Ohio’s 16th House Congressional District, served by Rep. Jim Renacci. All attended legislative committee meetings, researched legislation in process within the House of Representatives and helped coordinate responses to constituent inquiries. He attended a Congressional seminar featuring Paul Ryan, now Speaker of the House, and was selected to attend a seminar hosted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court. “Only 100 were chosen from thousands of interns and I was lucky enough to go,” he says. “I also was there when history was made – the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and the federal legalization on gay marriage.”
Doctoral student Basak Khamush-Kacar received the prestigious Donald E. Super Fellowship Award from the American Psychological Association for her dissertation on Identity and Career Experiences of Muslim Immigrant Women. She is a student in the counseling psychology doctoral program in the College of Education and Human Services. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychological counseling and guidance at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. Mikeleya Mitchell and Takyra Chatman are the inaugural recipients of CSU’s Central Neighborhood Scholarship. Both began their studies fall semester and plan to major in nursing. Mitchell graduated from John Hay Early College High School and Chatman graduated from Martin Luther King Jr. High School.
Paul All
All says the internship helped him grow personally and professionally. He’s now putting what he learned into action as a student representative to the CSU board of trustees, speaker of the Senate for the Student Government Association, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and a Presidential Student Ambassador.
(l-r) Valentinas Gruzdys, Dan Wang, Mahesheema Na
He will graduate in May 2017 and plans to go to law school. Jarrell Salone is the first CSU student in more than 10 years to be awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship to study abroad. He is attending Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, the capital of Jordan, through a partnership with AMIDEAST, an American nonprofit organization engaged in international education, training and development in the Middle East and North Africa. He will return home in May. Salone is majoring in international relations at CSU, with a double minor in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic. He is a U.S. Army veteran whose five years of active duty as a combat medic included deployment to Iraq, where he became interested in the Middle East in general and the Arabic language in particular. Clinical chemistry Ph.D. students Valentinas Gruzdys and Mahesheema Na were selected by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) for the highly competitive Society for Young Clinical Laboratorians travel grant to attend the 2015 AACC annual meeting in Atlanta. Just three travel grants were awarded nationally. Gruzdys and Na gave presentations on their research at CSU, which pertains to the biochemistry of blood coagulation and thrombosis. Another CSU clinical chemistry Ph.D. student, Dan Wang, received the Young Investigator Travel Award to attend the 2015 Association for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Laboratory annual meeting in San Diego.
Jarrell Salone Mikeleya Mitchell, Takyra Chatman
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