
USDA Pathways (2017-2022)
Pathways to Success for Hispanic Students as Registered Dietitians (鈥淧athways鈥)


The 快活林性息/NEVHC Dietetic Internship in collaboration with the 快活林性息 Marilyn听Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition, and Dietetics would like to extend an invitation to you to join our听Peer听Mentoring听Program,听a mentorship听program听for culturally diverse students听applying to dietetic internships.听The aim of this听program听is to increase diversity in dietetics by guiding under-represented dietetic students through the internship application process. 快活林性息 dietetic interns will provide one-on-one guidance, coaching and support of students through the dietetic internship application process.听We encourage students of all diverse groups to apply.听
听For more information, please contact:听magaram.center@csun.edu

Our Pathways fellows attended the annual听USDA NIFA and AAHHE conference听and presented their research posters and projects.
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- Annette Besnilian, EdD, MPH, RDN, CLE, FAND
Executive Director
Primary Investigator
听 - Merav Efrat, Ed.D, MPH, IBCLC
Primary Investigator
听 - Setareh听Torabian-Riasati, Dr.PH, M.S, R.D听
Director of Didactic Program of Dietetics (DPD), 快活林性息
听 - Karmen Ovsepyan, MS, RDN
Associate Director
听 - Jenica Smith
Project Coordinator
听 - Trisha Patel, MS, RDN
Project Coordinator听
听 - Lisa Kim
Administrative Support
This work is supported by Pathways to Success for Hispanic Students as Registered Dietitians (鈥淧athways鈥) [grant no. 2017-38422-27107] from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.听
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
NIFA Acknowledgement
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快活林性息 Today
Magaram Center Nationally Recognized for Efforts to Promote Diversity in Nutrition Careers

快活林性息 USDA Pathway Students Continue to Shine and Persevere
Graduate and undergraduate fellows in the 鈥淧athways to Success鈥 program attended the 15th annual conference for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) in Costa Mesa, California on March 5th-7th with Annette Besnilian, Executive Director of the Marilyn Magaram Center (MMC).

Pathways to Success Wins National Award at UEDA Summit
We are thrilled to announce that the鈥 Marilyn鈥疢agaram鈥疌enter鈥檚 鈥淧athways to Success鈥 program was selected as the winner in the Talent + Place category for the University Economic Development Association鈥檚 (UEDA) 2020 Awards of Excellence!