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Roudi Roy
Dr. Roudi Roy is a Professor of Child Development and Family Studies in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. Over the past five years, her innovative research has focused on the experiences of multiracial families, student-parents, and marginalized populations. Her groundbreaking theoretical model on relationship satisfaction during the transition to parenthood, co-authored with colleagues and published in the Journal of Family Theory and Review, earned the 2021 Top Cited Article award. Additionally, her work addressing student-parents' mental health during COVID-19, featured in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, received the 2021 Best Paper Award.
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Lauren Heidbrink
Dr. Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and Professor of human development. She is author of Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), an ethnography on unaccompanied child migration and detention in the United States. Her second book Migranthood: Youth in a new era of deportation (Stanford University Press 2020; published in Spanish with UNAM-CIMSUR 2021) examines the deportation of Indigenous youth in Central America and its enduring impacts on young people, their families and transnational communities. Heidbrink was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at U. of California, San Diego (2022-2023) and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University (2023).
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Kimberly R. Kelly
Dr. Kimberly R. Kelly is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development at CSULB. Dr. Kelly is a scholar, leader, and educator committed to advancing equity and inclusive excellence in higher education. Her research focuses on narrative and family informal learning, amplifying families’ everyday interactions that promote young children’s science learning. She has published widely in top journals, including Science Education, Computers in Human Behavior Reports, and Infant and Child Development. Dr. Kelly’s forthcoming edited volume, Narrative Story Completion Methodologies: Research Approaches Across the Lifespan (Oxford University Press), highlights innovative research techniques from top international scholars and across diverse contexts.
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Outstanding Graduate Student in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Award
Adebimpe “Bimpe” Akinwalere is a graduate student in the Master of Public Health program at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and a Medical Doctor from Nigeria. She has dedicated her academic and professional career to advancing public health research, addressing health disparities, and improving health outcomes.
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Distinguished Faculty Advising Award
Deborah Fraser, PhD. Is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at CSULB. She completed her BSc. In Cellular and Molecular Pathology at the University of Bristol (Bristol, England) and a PhD in molecular medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine (Cardiff, Wales). Dr. Fraser’s research interests are in the field of immunology, and her lab strives to understand the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory diseases.
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Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
Dr. Bengt Allen joined the Department of Biological Sciences in 2007 after earning a BA from Pomona College, MS from San Diego State University, and PhD from Stony Brook University. Dr. Allen was hired to teach General Ecology, Marine Biology, and Marine Community Ecology and has done so regularly since. Every other year, he also teaches a 4-week long field course and supervises undergraduate directed research on Catalina Island as part of the Ocean Sciences Institute’s CSU Catalina Semester. This unique program provides marine biology students with hands-on, field-based experiences in an intensive, small-class manner.
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Ayendili Alcantar Alvarez | April 2024
Ayendili’s career path within Enrollment Services began in 2014 as a student assistant within the financial aid department. Upon graduating, she transitioned into a staff position within the same department. Ayendili received praise for her assistance to a student, but she has also been recognized by a co-worker for her collegial support.
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Elizabeth "Liz" Harris | March 2025
As a Faculty Affairs staff member for twenty-five years, Liz Harris has earned a reputation as a subject matter expert not only within the department, but also across campus and throughout the system. Colleagues have praised her character and her contributions.
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Emily DeMots | February 2025
In her short tenure of seven months on campus, Emily has made “remarkable contributions to enhancing and streamlining one of our key processes for signing prospective student-athletes.”
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Shannyn Sayula | 2024 Employee of the Year for Inclusive Excellence
The Inclusive Excellence Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in fostering an inclusive culture of respect, collegiality, and civility. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University’s core value of diversity.
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Kim Truesdelle | 2024 Employee of the Year for Innovation
The Innovation Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing innovation in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity and innovation.
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Debora Aguilera | 2024 Employee of the Year for Leadership
The Leadership Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing quality leadership in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, and service.
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Elyzza M. Aparicio | 2024 Employee of the Year for Student Success
The Student Success Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in support of CSULB’s core mission of providing excellent, highly-valued educational opportunities. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core value of educational opportunity.
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Shark Beach Safety | 2024 Team Achievement Award
The Team Achievement Award recognizes a team of staff members who collaborated on a project, process, or other significant initiative to achieve distinctive results/solutions which positively impacted University operations, improve productivity, and/or reduce costs, and benefited a major sector of the University. The team aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity, innovation and educational opportunity
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Shannyn Sayula | 2024 Employee of the Year for Inclusive Excellence
The Inclusive Excellence Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in fostering an inclusive culture of respect, collegiality, and civility. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University’s core value of diversity.
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Kim Truesdelle | 2024 Employee of the Year for Innovation
The Innovation Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing innovation in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity and innovation.
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Debora Aguilera | 2024 Employee of the Year for Leadership
The Leadership Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing quality leadership in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, and service.
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Elyzza M. Aparicio | 2024 Employee of the Year for Student Success
The Student Success Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in support of CSULB’s core mission of providing excellent, highly-valued educational opportunities. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core value of educational opportunity.
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Shark Beach Safety | 2024 Team Achievement Award
The Team Achievement Award recognizes a team of staff members who collaborated on a project, process, or other significant initiative to achieve distinctive results/solutions which positively impacted University operations, improve productivity, and/or reduce costs, and benefited a major sector of the University. The team aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity, innovation and educational opportunity
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Shannyn Sayula | 2024 Employee of the Year for Inclusive Excellence
The Inclusive Excellence Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in fostering an inclusive culture of respect, collegiality, and civility. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University’s core value of diversity.
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Kim Truesdelle | 2024 Employee of the Year for Innovation
The Innovation Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing innovation in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity and innovation.
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Debora Aguilera | 2024 Employee of the Year for Leadership
The Leadership Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in providing quality leadership in the delivery of services to the campus community, such as students, faculty, or staff. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, and service.
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Elyzza M. Aparicio | 2024 Employee of the Year for Student Success
The Student Success Award recognizes an employee who had made a significant contribution in support of CSULB’s core mission of providing excellent, highly-valued educational opportunities. The employee aligned actions and decisions with the University's core value of educational opportunity.
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Shark Beach Safety | 2024 Team Achievement Award
The Team Achievement Award recognizes a team of staff members who collaborated on a project, process, or other significant initiative to achieve distinctive results/solutions which positively impacted University operations, improve productivity, and/or reduce costs, and benefited a major sector of the University. The team aligned actions and decisions with the University's core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity, innovation and educational opportunity
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Rashida Crutchfield | 2025 Outstanding Faculty Service
The Wang Family Excellence Award recognizes four outstanding faculty members and one outstanding staff member who, through extraordinary commitment and dedication, have distinguished themselves through exemplary contributions and achievements. Their activities advance the California State University’s mission, contribute to student success, bring benefit and credit to the CSU, and enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.
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Kelly Ansely Young | 2024 Outstanding Faculty Innovator in Student Success
The Wang Family Excellence Award recognizes four outstanding faculty members and one outstanding staff member who, through extraordinary commitment and dedication, have distinguished themselves through exemplary contributions and achievements. Their activities advance the California State University’s mission, contribute to student success, bring benefit and credit to the CSU, and enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.
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Loucine M. Huckabay | 2022 Outstanding Faculty Service
The Wang Family Excellence Award recognizes four outstanding faculty members and one outstanding staff member who, through extraordinary commitment and dedication, have distinguished themselves through exemplary contributions and achievements. Their activities advance the California State University’s mission, contribute to student success, bring benefit and credit to the CSU, and enhance excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.
