Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus has announced the 14 recipients of the prestigious Rogers Scholars awards for the 2016-2017 academic year.

They are:

  • Flor Alvarez of Coachella – major: nursing;
  • Joanna Banda of Desert Hot Springs – major: criminal justice;
  • Melissa Ceballos of Coachella – major: liberal studies integrated;
  • Kimberly Clarke of Palm Desert – major: teaching credential (graduate student);
  • Monica Colon of Palm Desert – major: nursing;
  • Danielle Cook of Palm Springs – major: liberal studies integrated;
  • Jeanie Esquivel of Indio – major: English;
  • Renata Flores of Cathedral City – major: psychology;
  • Areli Gonzalez of Cathedral City – major: nursing;
  • Abigail Osorio of Cathedral City – major: accounting;
  • Nicole Phillips of Palm Desert – major: liberal studies;
  • Edgar Rivera of Indio – major: psychology;
  • Stacie Subia of Cathedral City – major: psychology; and
  • Alissa Valdez of Indio – major: psychology.

The Mary Stuart Rogers Scholarship fund was established in 1994 to provide monetary awards for deserving students. Recipients, called Rogers Scholars, must demonstrate a sincere commitment to their own personal growth, compile outstanding academic records, demonstrate leadership qualities, and show a desire to serve their fellow students and communities. The award is a merit-based scholarship and only awarded to the top students at the campus.

Each year, the recipients of the scholarship are honored at a banquet where they meet John Rogers, the son of Mary Stuart Rogers, and his family. Since its establishment, the Rogers Scholarship has awarded more than $1 million to students at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus.

Located in beautiful Palm Desert, the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus offers bachelor and master’s degrees, a doctorate degree in educational leadership, and teacher credentials and certificates. With more than 1,200 students, it is the only four-year public university in the Coachella Valley and plays a vital role in educating and training the region’s growing population.

For more information about the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus, contact Mike Singer in the campus’s Office of Public Affairs at msinger@csusb.edu or (760) 341-2883, ext. 78107 or visit the campus website at www.pdc.csusb.edu.