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| First | Last | Group | |
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OUTSTANDING |
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| Anh | Le | For VN CARES | |
| Jennifer | Etcheson | ||
| Jane Marie | Ford | ||
| Victoria | Hamscho | ||
| Kristen | Lohse | ||
| Victoria | Pham | ||
| Nicole (Nicki) | Sun | ||
GOLD |
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| Melissa | Joe | For Circle K International | |
| Becky | Milczarek | For Graduate Student Community Service Committee | |
| Vanessa | Reyes | For Help and Education Leading to Prevention | |
| Sonia | Bouvron | ||
| Yuet-Ming | Chan | ||
| Christian | Commander | ||
| Mariana | Dailey | ||
| Deepal | Dalal | ||
| Dawnte | Early | ||
| Chelsea | Fahr | ||
| Kayla | Howard-Anderson | ||
| Tracy | Jalaba | ||
| Melissa | Joe | ||
| Rita | Lau | ||
| Jamie | Le | ||
| Lannah Lorraine | Lua | ||
| Maria | Ly | ||
| Jay | Lytton | ||
| Helen | Masland | ||
| Payvand | Milani | ||
| Hasmik | Minasyan | ||
| Monisha | Paripatyadar | ||
| Andrea | Phillips | ||
| Vanessa | Reyes | ||
| Ta'Sheema | Taylor | ||
| Jennifer | Tran | ||
| Joanna | Tripet-Diel | ||
| Nathaniel | Weaver | ||
| Helen | Zhong | ||
SILVER |
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| Mario | Cruz | For Nu Alpha Kappa | |
| Yuet-Ming | Chan | For Paul Hom Asian Clinic | |
| Kirti | Malhotra | For Prytanean Women's Honors Society | |
| Daniel | AbouBechara | ||
| Ryan | Achterberg | ||
| Benjamin | Amezcua | ||
| Pranav | Argade | ||
| Frederick | Bassal | ||
| Connie | Bi | ||
| Kendra | Bridges | ||
| Robert | Chen | ||
| Catherine | Dizon | ||
| Kindra | Eidson | ||
| Sarah | Foster | ||
| Kristen | Galione | ||
| Saritha | Goriparthi | ||
| Matthew | Guess | ||
| Sara | Hawkey | ||
| Brandon | Jensen | ||
| Lelia | Johnson | ||
| Svetlana | Kaylan | ||
| Paloma | Krasilchik-Ojeda | ||
| Matthew | Lam | ||
| Ha | Le | ||
| Sharon | Lee | ||
| Delight | Lee | ||
| Chio Teng | Lei | ||
| Calvin | Ly | ||
| Roland | Ma | ||
| Evonne | Ma | ||
| Kirti | Malhotra | ||
| Marjorie Maye | Mamsaang | ||
| Jasdeep | Manik | ||
| Gina | Martin | ||
| Rricha | Mathur | ||
| Marvin | Mora | ||
| Tracy | Ng | ||
| Jacqueline | Nguyen | ||
| Chisom | Ofodire | ||
| Adaeze | Okeh | ||
| Gerald | Pamintuan | ||
| Kim Anh | Pham | ||
| Sheng | Qin | ||
| Srilaaxmi | Ramesh | ||
| Rameshwar | Rao | ||
| Mohana | Roy | ||
| Amritpal | Sandhu | ||
| Brittaney | Shans | ||
| Jenna | Templeton | ||
| Julie | Tracy | ||
| Tara | Vang | ||
| khin | win | ||
| Eva | Wong | ||
| Carl | Yen | ||
| Eun Ji | Yoo | ||
| Edmund | Yu | ||
| Musa | Zaid | ||
BRONZE |
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| Jonathan | Dunsworth | For Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity | |
| Rumneet | Kullar | For Delta Epsilon Mu | |
| Melissa | Breck | For UC Davis Adventures In Science | |
| Melissa | Apter | ||
| Brandee | Barker | ||
| Tonya | Bowers | ||
| Halema | Buzayan | ||
| Pegah | Chaharmahali | ||
| Cheng Han | Chan | ||
| Joyce | Chang | ||
| Liqun | Chen | ||
| Minyoung | Choi | ||
| Caitlin | Cohan | ||
| Khanha | Dao | ||
| Tram | Dao | ||
| John | Dreyer | ||
| Brett | Fontaine | ||
| Andrea | Giang | ||
| Thomas | Gildea | ||
| Amanda | Hardwick | ||
| Rebecca | Ho | ||
| Annie | Hoang | ||
| Christina | Hoang | ||
| Yin | Htet | ||
| Angela | Hughes | ||
| Parveen | Hussain | ||
| Johnny | Jaber | ||
| Nosherwan | Jan | ||
| Laura | Lan | ||
| Linda | Lee | ||
| Ann | Leung | ||
| Abigail | Lim | ||
| Maggie | Lin | ||
| Teresa | Louie | ||
| Jeffrey | Ma | ||
| Jessica | Martin | ||
| Natalya | Mashevsky | ||
| Siobhan | McRee | ||
| Kayla | Medina | ||
| Gregory | Mirsky | ||
| Serene | Musallam | ||
| Jessica | Nguyen | ||
| Marie | Nicolopulos | ||
| Jhan Ongoco | Ongoco | ||
| Rudy | Patrick | ||
| Valerie | Pease | ||
| Hannah | Prasad | ||
| Fiona | Scott | ||
| Jennifer | Soo Hoo | ||
| Alice | Su | ||
| Luke | Ta | ||
| Katherine | Tom | ||
| Jamie | Urborg | ||
| shivani | vasishta | ||
| Colette | Vassilian | ||
| Anastasia | Warde | ||
| Derek | Wittteman | ||
| shirley | yan | ||
| Chung Hao | Yu | ||
| Emily | Yuen | ||
| Vivian | Zhang | ||
Honorable Mention |
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| Lara | Awad | ||
| Philip | Buss | ||
| Barbara (Ching-Yun) | Chang | ||
| Jeremy | Cheang | ||
| Carmen | Chu | ||
| Mario | Cruz | ||
| Cory | Fernandes | ||
| Aaron | Fischman | ||
| Matthew | Jeong | ||
| Stacy | Matsuura | ||
| Alexandra | Monrroy | ||
| Phillip | Nava | ||
| Thuy | Nguyen | ||
| Joanne | Okolo | ||
| Jay | Panchal | ||
| Laura | Perry | ||
| Harpreet | Sidhu | ||
All recipients of Community Service Awards may pick up their Certificates in the Community Service Resource Center (Community Service Resource Center) in 225 South Hall after May 18, 2009.
Click here for a list of 2008 Awards Recipients
The Vietnamese Cancer Awareness Research and Education Society (VN CARES) was begun in 2001 in response to a national report that revealed Vietnamese American women had the highest rate of cervical cancer of all ethnic groups. To address this, VN CARES began working with the Vietnamese community of Sacramento in 2001. Since its establishment, VN CARES has served the growing Vietnamese community with breast and cervical screenings for females, prostate cancer screening for males, Hepatitis B screenings and other primary healthcare needs. This student run clinic has done more than medical exams; they have connected to their cultural heritage and bridged the gap between generations. “Aside from spreading awareness, our student-run clinic ensures that every patient has the same opportunity to lead a healthy lifestyle. Most importantly, VN CARES has been able to show the underserved Vietnamese community that their health does matter and there are people who definitely care.”
Outstanding Students
A trip to Ghana inspired outstanding winner Jennifer Etcheson to be the change she wanted to see. Quoting Mahatama Ghandi in her essay, Jennifer wanted to see a change happen after witnessing extreme poverty, hunger, and impoverished orphanages that attempted to teach classes without the necessities. It was from this experience that Jennifer started the H.E.L.P for Africa Club which sends education supplies and health pamphlets to children. In describing her reasoning, Jennifer says “my hope is that this education may propel them to receive better job opportunities and thus a brighter future.” Jennifer was a summer health care intern in Oaxaca, Mexico where she worked side-by-side with health care officials to educate local people about diseases like malaria and dengue and the measures they could take to keep their communities healthy. Back in Davis, Jennifer volunteers at the Willow Clinic, a student-run clinic that serves the homeless population in Sacramento. Besides her clinic work, Jennifer has been volunteering with the Franz Research Group to design pharmaceutical drugs that will be safer for patients and the environment as well as more cost effective.
Overseas or in the United States, Jane Marie Ford is committed in doing service work to help better the living conditions of people. Following a trip in 2007 to India with Global Urban Trek, Jane Marie returned the next year as a staff person leading a program for improving the lives of poor adolescent women in a Kolkata community. She worked in the Bagmari Slum with the lowest caste of Indian society to help better their lives. Here in Davis, Jane Marie is the head coordinator for the 1000 Wells Project, a group that seeks to support the efforts of building clean water wells in African communities. The Davis 1000 Wells Project has raised over $35,000 and sponsored the construction of two wells that serve 9,000 people. She describes her passion for service in the following: “I am passionate about working in communities overseas, but I am also committed to bringing about physical and relation change in both marginalized and advantaged communities in the United States.”
For the past year, Victoria Hamscho has been the Referrals Committee Co-Head at Clinica Tepati, a student-run medical clinic. Working twenty hours a week for forty weeks, Victoria has supervised 15 caseworkers and was responsible for over 170 patients. She helped to establish services with medical school residents of the Psychiatry Department for the Psych Clinic Project where female patients are able to discuss issues such as depression and family problems and she established the Western Career College Dental Project where patients of Clinica are able to receive free oral healthcare services. Victoria describes establishing these projects as giving “me self-confidence to expand my volunteer work.” She spent nearly two months in Monterrey, Mexico where she coordinated a Red Cross Project with a group of high school students to raise money and awareness about free medical care. She reported that since her work last summer, there has been an increase in the use of Mexican Red Cross services.
Cancer is something that will affect everyone, directly or indirectly, at some point in their lives and Kristen Lohse has spent over 1200 hours volunteering with the American Cancer Society to try to change this fact. As the Team Captain Coordinator in the 2008 Relay for Life, Kristen trained team leaders and helped teams fundraise over $130,000 for cancer research. For this year’s Relay for Life, Kristen was one of the event’s two co-chairs and organized the whole event. She has worked with the American Cancer Society with various events such as Making Strides against Breast Cancer and Daffodil Days. She is also one of 12 participants in the National American Cancer Society Student Leadership Initiative and has taken on the role of creating a California Youth Division. Kristen also volunteers as a student research assistant at the M.I.N.D Institute in Sacramento studying Fragile X Syndrome-the most common genetic cause of mental retardation. In her own words, Kristen says “I truly know that one person can make a huge impact. I am proud to say that I am making a difference for cancer patients and their families.”
Victoria Pham has spent nearly 1000 hours volunteering her time with children. During the year she is a basketball coach for the local Special Olympics. She has learned that basketball is more than a game to the players on her team; it is an opportunity to learn about working in teams and vital social skills. During the summer, Victoria works as a counselor at Camp Okizu, a camp for children who have fought cancer or are currently undergoing treatment. She describes it as “a place of understanding and comfort where children are empowered to re-develop their self-confidence and independence”. Victoria has chosen to volunteer with children because of her extensive family contact with more than 20 cousins and because she believes “it is important to give back to the community that helped shape me as an individual”.
Since her freshman year in the dorms, Nicole Sun has been striving to give back in everyway possible. This past year, she along with four others, brought the SOLD Project to UC Davis. This is an organization that is dedicated to ending child prostitution worldwide. But her biggest achievement so far has been the 1000 hours she has donated to the Asian American Donor Program. This is an organization that helps to raise awareness about the importance of being a bone marrow donor. She has done outreach and given speeches at several benefit concerts to raise awareness. Nicole describes her volunteer work in the following way: “Volunteering is not measured in hours, but with the people you impact on a daily basis to be a better person for their community and the world.”
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