Dean's Message to Students
David Nazarian Receives Honorary Doctorate
Free Business Consulting Services
Nazarian College Receives AACSB Recognition
COMPETITIONS
- CSUN Fast Pitch New Venture Competition
- -- First Place (tie): Nourish with Leanna Merza, Magdah Al Sinaidi, Anh Nguyen and Christopher Moreno
- -- First Place (tie): Beegan Bites with Melissa Schwarz, Maya Sparadeo, Devin Dean and Melissa Padilla
- -- Third Place: Van Robotics with Sean Van Duser, Kyle Keislar, Calvin Castanares, Thomas Parashos and Shahnam Mirzaei
- Bull Ring Competition
- -- Grand Prize: ‘NoSpill’ Tray for delivery drivers with Bretiel Danipour, Jenna Flynn, Tammy Nguyen and Stephanie Villa
- CFA Institute Research Challenge in Los Angeles Local Competition
- -- First Place: Sean Lancaster, Danny Cho, and Seong (Nathan) Yu won first place in the local level CFA IRC and went on to compete in the Americas round in April in New York City
- CSUN Goldman Sachs Case Competition
- -- First Place: Nyan Lin, Tony Lund, Faraz Samsani, Joseph Elmajian and Tal Fitlovich
- -- Second Place: Alexander Zagraychuk, Robert Denam, Evan Burman, Bernardo Calderon, Jonathan Galdamez and Arev Tatarian
- CSUNPosium
- -- First Place (showcases excellence in scholarly research and creative activity)
- Binuri Fonseka - Morning Poster
- Harrison Handel - Oral Presentation (Undergraduate)
-- Second Place
- Angelica Leon - Oral Presentation (Undergraduate)
- Small Business Institute Competition and Conference
- -- First Place: Undergraduate Consulting; Students Jenna M. Flynn, Alexander M. Brankovic, Angeline Gomez and Vanessa Arriaza
- -- Second Place: Graduate Comprehensive; Students Michelle Gieblar, Patricia Lopez, Valerie Taylor Stoner and Patoo Teamtad
International Collegiate Conference Competition—Matador AMA receives multiple awards.
- -- Third Place: Matador AMA won third place for “Best Recruitment Video.”
- -- Mariam Boyadjian won a $3,000 AMA EBSCO scholarship, which was given to her based on her leadership of the chapter.
- Beta Alpha Psi, Epsilon Chi, Regional Best Practices Competition
- -- First Place: Alec Agana and Humberto Gonzalez win first place in the “Roots” category
- -- Second Place: Vania Walangare, Anna Hakopian, Kirstin Shost and Richard Maldonado win second place in the “Branches” category
- -- Both teams were lead by faculty advisor, Professor Anne Wu.
SCHOLARSHIPS
- More than 150 Nazarian business students received scholarships.
INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Scholar—Anush Martirosyan was awarded the prestigious scholarship, which is given to undergraduate and graduate accounting students enrolled in accredited U.S. colleges and universities.
CO-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES
- Distinguished Speaker Series (Fall): Bruce Gersh '91, president of People, People En Espanol and Entertainment Weekly. entertainment media executive and California State University, Northridge alumnus.
- Distinguished Speaker Series (Spring): Paul Dali '67, chair at Holon Solutions and former general manager and chairman of the Marketing Council at Apple
- Eight MBA Students, with supervision from Professor Franck Vigneron, worked on a project to help launch Emmy award-winning Misha Segal's new organization, The Forbidden Band.
HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS
- CSUN ALPFA Chapter Named West Region Chapter of the Year. Watch the video here.
- Beta Gamma Sigma Inducts 40 Students:
- -- Sophomore inductees were Mary Bilbao, Claire Daniels, Elline Dominique Deogracias, Dilini Selena Dodanwalage, Noreen Keh, Jessica Lauren Puzon, and Rahul Soni.
- -- Junior inductees were Meri Adamyan, Robert Aghazarian, Khachik Baghumyan, John Alvaro Bulactial, Camila Echeverry, Leila Esmaeili, Seth Fraser, Garegin Gevorgyan, Tejesh Goyal, Burcu Gulagiz, Lerone Herscu, Lilit Hovhannisyan, Lauryn Lawton, Robin Lodge, Patricia Mamac, Adrineh Manasi, Blake Mccormack, Ken Roy Mejes, Chi Nguyen, Marketa Pospechova, David Reynoso, Lorena Rodriguez, Seda Shamirian, and Brooke Yanke.
- -- Seniors were Shayan Alimohammadi, Amna Altaf, Samantha Cinco, Naoko Kishimizu, Chloe Le-Hill Nguyen, Jake Moreno, Maja Tanna, and Aaron Yonkers.
- -- 13 graduate students rounded out the newest cohort of BGS inductees: Masood Chotani, Marina Ivan, Qiujun Kitchner, Lucas Kolding, Anastasia Kramsky, Sonia Le, Patricia Lopez, Geremy Mason, Svetlana Pashazadeh-Monajemi, Sheelah Resnick, Valerie Taylor, Raphael Yoshimura and Ruba Zorob.