Gayman Endowment Scholarship Recipients (2010)

The San Mateo Branch of AAUW is pleased to announce that the Gayman Endowment Scholarships for 2010 have been awarded to five San Mateo County Community College District students. Each scholarship, for $2000, was awarded to a deserving student transferring to a four- year university in the fall of 2010.
  • Raphaelle Buenafe received an A.A. in business administration from the College of San Mateo. Beside volunteering both on and off campus and having a part-time job, she was a star member of CSM’s women’s basketball team. She will attend the University of La Verne near Ontario, CA, continuing in business administration.

  • Derrick Hau is fascinated with scientific research. At Skyline College, he did independent research above and beyond that required by his courses and was involved with many science-oriented extracurricular activities. He will attend UC Berkeley with a major in molecular and cell biology and a minor in toxicology.

  • Violeta Juarez was involved in numerous extracurricular activities at Caňada College. Among them, were two of which she was a founding member — a chapter of Women in Science and Engineering and the Robotics Team. Her major is computer engineering and she will attend either UC Berkeley or Cornell.

  • Jeremy Morales,from Caňada College, majors in chemical engineering. Last summer, he distinguished himself as being the only community college student to participate in the undergraduate research internship at Stanford’s Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies. He will attend UC San Diego.

  • Stephanie Nale, from Skyline College, will attend UC Santa Cruz, with a major in environmental geology. Originally she majored in anthropology, but after taking her first geology course, she quickly changed her mind. As part of UC Berkeley’s environmental leadership pathway program, last summer she was selected to participate in field work with the Wildland Fire Science Lab.