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Four outstanding University of La Verne students received prestigious fellowships and scholarships for their community service and student leadership in the spring.<\/p>\n
Maribel Hernandez received the Newman Civic Fellows Award, which honors \u201cinspiring college student leaders\u201d who are creating positive changes in their communities.<\/p>\n
Hernandez, a business major, is the Director of Community Involvement for the University\u2019s Latino Student Forum. She is also the Freshman Ambassador of the Associated Students of the University of La Verne.<\/p>\n
She credits her parents \u2013 immigrants from Mexico \u2013 with teaching her the value of helping others in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents instilled in me the importance of community through their own acts of generosity and service,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cI saw it exemplified in their lives and they helped me to develop it in mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Computer science and physics major Joshua Serrano received a $750 Kepler Scholarship during an April awards ceremony for his extensive involvement in the astronomy programs at University of La Verne and Mt. San Antonio College.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was surprised but very happy to receive this scholarship,\u201d said Serrano. \u201cAll of the other students who applied are all very highly-qualified, so it could have been any one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old is an intern in the planetary science division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He has been working with JPL scientists on the Cassini Mission. This summer, he will be promoted to an academic part-time position, where he will work on a proposed NASA project planned for 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cJPL does a really good job of putting students with cutting-edge scientists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
After graduation, Serrano plans to attend graduate school to study astrophysics.<\/p>\n
Mariela Martinez and Carlos Yanes<\/h3>\n
Mariela Martinez and Carlos Yanes have been accepted into the California Campus Compact\u2019s Community Engagement Student Fellowship program, which provides funding for four-month, 50-hour community service projects on campus. They both received $500 scholarships.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really hoping to get this because I have always wanted to do something like this,\u201d said Martinez, a political science major minoring in interfaith studies.<\/p>\n
Martinez has pledged to raise awareness and help for refugees living locally who fled Syria, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. She plans to spend a month focusing on refugees from each country. She will air a documentary on the subject and host a community event aimed at welcoming the refugees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they have had to go through \u2013 fleeing their home countries, not for economic reasons but to escape violence \u2013 it really touches home for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old is the daughter of immigrant parents who fled the crime-ridden Mexican town of Juarez when Martinez was 7 years old.<\/p>\n
She said she has always had a passion for helping others, and attributes much of her plan to the guidance and inspiration she has received during classes at University of La Verne.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe University of La Verne is so centered around community service and activism, which has really inspired me to do so much more, and on an international level that I wasn\u2019t aware of before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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