{"id":326600,"date":"2026-05-21T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326600\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:33:08","slug":"top-graduates-receive-deans-award-honored-at-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326600\/","title":{"rendered":"Top graduates receive Deans&#8217; Award, honored at celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"un-story-author\">By News and Communications Staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"un-story-date\">May 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State honored the top graduates in each of its seven colleges during a celebration on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Each college selected one undergraduate student to receive the Dean\u2019s Leadership &amp; Excellence Award for outstanding leadership, service, and achievements that enrich the campus community. One Dean\u2019s Award winner is chosen annual to receive the President\u2019s Medal, Sac State\u2019s top student honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Dean of Students also collaborated with Student Organizations &amp; Leadership and University Housing Services to recognize individuals and groups that made meaningful contributions to student life.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2019s Medal<\/p>\n<p>Somaya Faruqui &#8211; College of Engineering &amp; Computer Science<\/p>\n<p>Deans\u2019 Award Winners<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah L. Kennedy &#8211; College of Arts &amp; Letters<br \/>\nKyen Gilfranc Canchico &#8211; College of Business<br \/>\nMayelli Gonzalez Munoz &#8211; College of Education<br \/>\nTegan Marie Reynosa &#8211; College of Health &amp; Human Services<br \/>\nEmily Lam &#8211; College of Natural Sciences &amp; Mathematics<br \/>\nQuinn O\u2019Connor &#8211; College of Social Sciences &amp; Interdisciplinary Studies<\/p>\n<p>University Housing Services\u2019 Award<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Poblano &#8211; Outstanding Graduate Assistant<br \/>\nLeila Berina &#8211; Residential Community Connector<br \/>\nJesus Nava &#8211; Residential Student Advocate Award<\/p>\n<p>Student Organizations &amp; Leadership Award<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Nelson &#8211; Sport Club Athlete of the Year, Women\u2019s Rugby<br \/>\nAdrian Amandor &#8211; Sport Club Officer of the Year, Esports<br \/>\nGabriel Maples &#8211; Sport Club Leader of the Year, Men\u2019s Soccer<br \/>\nSarvenaz Sobhan &#8211; Faculty\/Staff Advisor of the Year, American Society of Mechanical Engineers<br \/>\nRaden Kayla Zilvia &#8211; Student Leader of the Year, Future Business Leaders of America<br \/>\nCaribbean Student Association &#8211; Organization of the Year<br \/>\nMariachi Los Avispones &#8211; Student Performers<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the award recipients, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csus.edu\/student-affairs\/spotlights\/deans-award-recipients.html#university-housing-services-award-residential-community-connector\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deans\u2019 Leadership &amp; Excellence Awards<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n<p>                                                About News and Communications Staff<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State\u2019s News and Communications team writes and shares stories about the University, its students, faculty, and alumni, revealing the accomplishments, achievements and milestones that characterize its standing as an educational leader and an important community center. The department\u2019s writers, editors and public relations personnel look across the broad spectrum of the campus and the people who thrive here to support the University\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By News and Communications Staff May 21, 2026 Sacramento State honored the top graduates in each of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-326600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}