BSS Faculty Brown Bag Series
December 6, 2024
BSS Student Symposium
May, 2025
BSS Awards & Scholarships Ceremony
May 16, 2025
BSS Commencements
May 17, 2025
BSS FUTURE Scholars - Student Testimonials
We asked some of our current students and alumni about their experience in the BSS FUTURE Scholars program and here's what they had to say. Click through each student's profile to learn about how this journey has and will continue to shape their academic asipirations!
- Summer 2024 Cohort
- Michael Courts - Anthropology Major
- Research Project: "Archaeologically Recovered Teaching Collection"
- Faculty Mentor: Matt O’Brien | Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Director of the Archaeological Research Program, Department of Anthropology
- Clara Ferrer - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Analyzing and Disseminating Qualitative Research on College Women and Pornography"
- Faculty Mentor: Christine E. Leistner, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Public Health and Health Services Administration
- Elaina Granados - Social Science Major
- Research Project: "Scoping Review of Suicide Prevention Programs in the Schools"
- Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor: Shelley R. Hart, PhD, NCSP | Professor, Department of Child Development
- Dania Mabiel Moreno Ruiz - Multiculture & Gender Studies Major
- Research Project: "Indigenous Identities and Cultures in Nicaragua: Issues with the Indigenista approach in the region between 1940s-1970s"
- Faculty Mentor: Gabriela Medina Falzone, PhD | Assistant Professor of Intersectional Latine Studies, Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies, Interim Director of Chico State Project Rebound
- Gabriel Munoz - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Exploring the Semantic Distractor Template: Understanding Memory Representation of Ignored Information"
- Faculty Mentor: Bo Yeong Won, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Mimi Nguyen - Multicultural & Gender Studies Major
- Research Project: "Multicultural & Gender Studies/EWS Digital Archive"
- Faculty Mentor: Susan Gordon Green | Chair, Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies
- Sophia Pelletier - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Scoping Review of Suicide Prevention Programs in the Schools"
- Faculty Mentor: Shelley R. Hart, PhD, NCSP | Professor, Department of Child Development
- Brianna Reyes - Anthropology Major
- Research Project: "Culturally Appropriate Care of Baskets"
- Faculty Mentor: April Kamp-Whittaker, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Michael Courts - Anthropology Major
- Fall 2024 Cohort
- Fernando Andres Lopez - Social Work Major
- Research Project: "Legislative Education: Impact on Social Work Students”
- Faculty Mentor: Michele Eggers, PhD | BSW Program Director and Associate Professor, School of Social Work
- Charris Avelino - Child Development Major
- Research Project: "Program Evaluation of Salem-Kaiser Model Threat Assessment”
- Faculty Mentor: Shelley Hart, PhD, NCSP | Professor, Department of Child Development
- Sage Crossin - Social Work Major
- Research Project: "LGBTQIA+ Student Needs Assessment”
- Faculty Mentor: Molly Heck, MSW, EdD | Lecturer, School of Social Work
- Michele Curiel - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Unbreakable Bond? How Life Imprisonment Affects the Lives of Loved Ones on the Outside”
- Faculty Mentor: Doris Schartmueller, PhD | Professor and Criminal Justice Program & Internship Coordinator, Department of Political Science & Criminal Justice
- Jaspreet Heer - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Campus vs. Municipal Policing”
- Faculty Mentor: Ryan Patten, PhD | Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Tricia McCutchen - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "The Further Health Implications of Using Inclusive Signals and Positive Patient-Provider Interactions for Sexual and Gender Minorities & for Sexual and Gender Majorities”
- Faculty Mentor: Kevin Click, PhD | Lecturer, Department of Psychology
- Erik Perez - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Investigating the Impact of Adolescent Benzodiazepine Exposure on Lipid Metabolism and Function”
- Faculty Mentor: Shawn Bates, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Mandy Peterson - Psychology Major
- Research Project: "Failure to Launch Emotion Regulation? Without a Default Option of “Doing Nothing,” Participants Choose to Regulate Their Emotions Effectively”
- Faculty Mentor: Michael Ennis, PhD | Professor, Department of Psychology
- Adin White - Anthropology Major
- Research Project: "Memory, History, and Healing: The Maidu Trail of Tears”
- Faculty Mentor: Jesse Dizard, PhD | Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Fernando Andres Lopez - Social Work Major
