Cal State L.A. students receive
Johnston, Kiwata, Medina to pursue doctoral studies
Los Angeles, CA --
Three Cal State L.A. students—Margaret Johnston, Jacqueline
Kiwata and Paulo H. Medina—are recipients of the 2012-13 California
State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) awards,
which are given in an effort to boost the number of CSU students who
enter doctoral programs as well as to increase the pool of potential
faculty for the CSU system.
CDIP provides student loans—in amounts of up to $10,000 per
year—to a limited number of individuals pursuing full-time doctoral
degrees at accredited universities throughout the United States. After
participants receive their doctoral degrees and obtain a qualifying
instructional position in the CSU, a portion of their loan from this
program will be forgiven every year.
Margaret Johnston, a seasoned nurse practitioner, has
worked in several hospitals for the past 30 years—including Glendale
Adventist Medical Center, Northridge Hospital Medical Center and Los
Angeles County+USC Medical Center—as a critical care clinical nurse
specialist, family nurse practitioner and program manager.
Over the years, she has shared her extensive knowledge and skills in
nursing with CSULA students through clinical supervision. Since 1990,
Johnston has been an instructor for CSULA’s School of Nursing. She has
applied to three Doctor of Nursing Practice programs and is waiting for
admissions decisions to begin in fall 2012.
A kinesiology graduate student, Jacqueline Kiwata received the 2011-12 Western Association
of Graduate School (WAGS) Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for her
research on “The Effects of Vigorous Exercise on the Content of Cholesteryl Linoleate, A Novel Antimicrobial Effector Molecule in Upper
Respiratory Tract Secretions.” Kiwata has authored a publication with
her faculty mentors, presented at a professional conference, and taught
several upper division undergraduate courses for CSULA’s School of
Kinesiology and Nutritional Science. She has been admitted to doctoral
program in biokinesiology, with a specialization in exercise physiology
at the University of Southern California, where she intends to begin in
fall 2012.
As a recipient of the Cotsen Fellowship, Paulo H. Medina conducted anthropology research in El Mirador, an
early pre-Columbian Maya settlement, in Guatemala. He has received 17
awards and honors, including the Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Fellowship.
His archaeological research focuses on the role of warfare of the
lowland Maya during the Preclassic period. Medina has participated in
several archaeological excavations and has presented his work at six
professional conferences. He was admitted to the doctoral program in
anthropology at State University of New York-Albany, the University of
Texas at San Antonio and the archaeology program at Boston University
(BU). Medina decided to attend BU, where he was awarded the Dean’s
Fellowship by the university’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Established in 1987, the CSU CDIP is the largest program of its kind in
the United States. As of June 2011 the program has loaned $40 million to
1,872 doctoral students enrolled in universities throughout the nation,
and 1,054 of these participants have successfully earned doctoral
degrees. Among participants who have earned their doctoral degrees, 600
(57 percent) have subsequently obtained employment in CSU instructional
faculty positions. For details:
http://www.calstate.edu/hr/cdip/program/.
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