BUILD PODER at CSUN

A free support and wellness circle for college students!! Please share!

This ongoing bi-weekly support space will be provided throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. You only need to RSVP once to access the Zoom link for the entire series.

Make sure to RSVP on our website to receive the Zoom link! www.icowellness.com/upcoming-events

✨ What to Expect ✨
Join our interactive talking circle designed for college students, where you can connect with peers in a supportive environment facilitated by a Wellness Provider.

🌟Discover effective techniques to manage the unique stressors of college life.
🌟Learn best practices to thrive academically and personally.
🌟Identify mental health challenges early and access valuable resources and support networks.

Whether you are looking for strategies to improve your well-being or connect with peers on a similar journey, this group is designed to be a resource and support!

If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected] or call/text 626-782-5570.

Congratulations to BP mentor, Dr. Ruiz Rueda!!! 🎉🎉

CSUN microbiologist Cristian Ruiz Rueda has received a $1 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study antibiotic resistance in bacteria. His research will explore how bacteria use their metabolic networks and efflux pumps to resist antibiotics. This project will also provide CSUN students hands-on research opportunities, integrating real-world experiments into classroom learning.

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Read the latest publication from the BUILD PODER team led by Dr. Frank Fernandez!

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My heart is full tonight! We hosted our 10 year BUILD PODER at CSUN reunion at CSUN tonight and it was an emotional reunion to see so many alumni return home!
So many wonderful stories and memories shared tonight! I am proud of each and every one of the BP alumni - changing the face of STEM! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

I am so grateful to all the mentors who also came out tonight to support the students! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your mentorship was critical to the success of BUILD PODER!

And to each member of the BP team, I am forever grateful! You are the community of support our students needed at critical times in their lives. Thank you for all you do (and did) day in and out!

So many students came from far away for this reunion! I feel so blessed!

While we wrap things up during the BP no-cost extension, we won’t forget the lessons we learned about mentoring undergraduate students in research!

BP will leave a legacy in the new Office of Undergraduate Research - CSUN,
And BP will live in each and everyone one of us.
This was an extraordinary journey and I was blessed to be part of it.

Gracias, with all of my heart ❤️ ❤️

Check out the latest publication from our research team led by Dr. Sungmin Moon. In this article, we found that BUILD PODER students reported higher levels of critical mentoring than non-intervention participants and critical mentoring was, in turn, predictive of higher mentorship satisfaction, science identity, and science self-efficacy.

What does this mean? CRT-informed intervention was more effective by developing an environment in which high-quality, critical mentors influenced students’ sense of science identity and self-efficacy.
Read the article here:

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It’s almost here! The BP Reunion - 10 years of BUILD PODER at CSUN!! Please join us!!
Email [email protected] if you did not receive your invitation!

Lookout for a postcard invitation in your mail in the next few weeks! 🎉

Check out BUILD PODER alumni Akemi’s daily adventure:

“I keep spacecraft microbially clean so when we go to other planets (or moons) for habitability/life detection science, we aren’t contaminating our results with Earth life. We also don’t want to contaminate the science sites (like Mars) for future missions, and in the case of Mars Sample Return, we don’t want any super hardy bacteria making a round trip with decades of space-induced changes. We launch from Florida, so in a few weeks our team is shipping out there to support the last little bit of assembly and testing that has to happen before then!” - Akemi Hinzer

Lookout for a postcard invitation in your mail in the next few weeks! 🎉

“Thank you Dr. Drew for being the best example possible of what a mentor truly is - I am honored to be able to call myself your mentee!”–Eddie Ramirez, BUILD Scientist

         
   

“I love mentoring students and being a part of their journey to discovering their passion in research.”— Dr. Stefanie Drew

         
   

“Thank you Dr. Malone for taking me in and helping me develop into the scientist that I am today!”–Dain Elfred

– Dain Elfred, BUILD Scientist

         
   

“As a mentor, I find joy in guiding aspiring minds, witnessing their intellectual evolution and contributing to a vibrant academic community.”
— Dr. Vickie Yu

         
   

“Thank you Dr. Ruiz for your support and guidance, under your mentorship, I was able to improve as a researcher.”
– Pablo Segundo, BUILD Scientist

         
   

“I love mentoring because our students are the future.” — Dr. Cristian Ruiz Rueda
         
   

“I am deeply grateful for your unwavering support, guidance, and commendable dedication as a mentor; your invaluable encouragement and constant presence during challenging times have meant the world to me.” – Mimi Truong, BUILD Scientist

         
   

“It is a joy to see how just an hour per week of mentoring helps a student to become a balanced successful person with healthy self-esteem and work etiquette.” — Dr. Anna Bezryadina

         
   

Interested in medical school? Join the free webinar!

🚨UPDATE: Webinar on 2/7🚨

Calling on all pre-med and current med TCU students!

SACNAS Native Initiatives is hosting a "How to Become a Doctor" Webinar February 6th at 11am PT. Join us as we hear from current medical student Siam Boyd and Dr. Thaius Boyd talk about their journeys in becoming doctors.

Both our speakers are former Tribal College/University students who will share their experiences with shadowing, internships, and how they navigated the medical school track while at their TCUs.

Learn how you can become a doctor too by registering today! >>> https://bit.ly/47LMNk7

Brb doing our happy dance for the achievements of these three superstars! 🤩💃🕺 Way to go!!

The Jerome Richfield Memorial Fund, organizes each year an event that celebrates a CSUN faculty member engaged in high quality, high-impact research, where they are named as the Richfield Memorial Fellow. Congratulations to our very own Dr. Patty Kwan for being named the 2024 Jerome Richfield Memorial Fellow. 🎉🥳🍾

BP Alum, Dr. Paulo Sitigata with Dr. Chavira catching! 💕 Always great to see the success of our former students!

Thanks to Professor Ganther for facilitating Financial Literacy ll workshop! 💵 💪🏽