2023-2024 Academic Year

COMPETITIONS

• CSUN Jeff Marine Bull Ring Competition
•  -- Grand Prize: LS Trust Marketing, led by finance student Laci Sanchez
• -- Second Place: Rethrifted with team members Andrea "Dre" Lopez and Iva Andrade
•  -- Third Place: Atlas with team members Evan Jones and William Chavez

• Small Business Institute Competition and Conference
• Two undergraduate student teams from the Business Honors Program Capstone course secured first place at the 48th Small Business Institute Annual Conference.
• -- First Place: Comprehensive category: Team members Kahleho Molapisi, Justin Tolchinsky, Keiana Samoy, Justin Keller and Marisol Zuniga
• -- First Place: Consulting category: Team members Emily Emrani, Fernanda Reyes, Brenda Dzul, Keenon Takaki and Patrik Khan-Babaei
•  Two graduate student teams from the Nazarian MBA Program entered consulting projects in the 48th Small Business Institute Annual Conference.
• -- First Place: Graduate consulting/specialized category: Team members Ian Martin-Arujo, Katrin Babayan, Jake Dougherty and Fatoumata Goita
•  -- Second Place: Graduate feasibility study/comprehensive category: Team members Edgar Banuelos, Bhavani Prasad, Taline Sarkisian, Chantal Sood and Diane Tran

• International Business Ethics Case Competition
•  -- Second Place: Christopher Mendoza, Joseph Coulombe, Gillian Watkins, Dominic Garcia and Eric Quinn won second place in three different categories at the University of Massachusetts, Mount Ida campus.

SCHOLARSHIPS/CERTIFICATES

• Five students received scholarships from California’s Real Estate and Land Use Institute: Briana Rubio, Lakshdeep Sukhija, Vy L. Tran, Trisha Williams and Abdulrahman Fayssal.
• Twenty-five students completed the Roadmap to Exporting program and received a certificate from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• 267 students received scholarships. Eighteen of those students received the Dean's Scholarship: Kevin Berookhim; Andres Casas; Rubi Amarillas-Canico; Harutyun Darbinyan; Leigha Hendrickson; Jennie Hwang; Xuan Liu; Yesenia Loopez-Pacheco; Azadeh Nazari; Monte Nazarian; Christopher Nowlin; Liza Perry; Emily Phan; Alex Pinwatana; Nahimur Rahman; Simar Takhar; Esteban Villalba and Trisha Williams

INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION

• Emily Emrani was a finalist for the 2024 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award.

CO-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES

• Thirty students toured Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium to learn more about commercial real estate.
• Fifteen students attended the VICA Extraordinary Women in Leadership breakfast event.
• Nearly 300 students volunteered more than 31,000 hours at the CSUN VITA Clinic, under the supervision of CSUN Nazarian faculty.

HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Sigma Nu Tau inaugurated its 50th chapter and inducted four student members: Talin Aivazian, Elizabeth Hernandez, Payton Moreno and Sankalp Pala.
• Fifteen undergraduate students attended the VICA Extraordinary Women in Leadership breakfast event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.
• The CSUN VITA Clinicserved 9,722 taxpayers at 15 locations this year.
• -- 282 students volunteered more than 31,000 hours at the clinic, under the supervision of expert CSUN Nazarian faculty.
• -- These students helped local taxpayers claim more than $10.9 million in federal and state tax refunds and more than $3.6 million in federal and state-earned income tax credits while saving the taxpayers more than $2 million in preparation fees.