Hoh Environmental Health Laboratory

Member News

Awards, fellowships, career updates, and achievements from past and present lab members.

Hoh Lab group members
March 2026

Alexa Fields took 2nd place in the Annual Student Poster Competition at the 21st AEHS West Coast Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and AI.

February 2026

Alexa Fields received the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Student Fellowship from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

January 2026

Jade Johnson received Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation's Leadership Grant.

November 2025

Eli Lew received a Master's Research Scholarship and SETAC North America 2025 Student Meeting Attendance Grant.

September 2025

Karissa Soriano begins the Doctors of Pharmacy program at UC San Diego.

September 2025

Genesis Barzallo received a T32 Fellowship at the ALIADOS Training Program (NIH), the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Supplement (TRDRP), a Graduate Student Research Award from the SDSU College of Health and Human Services, a University Graduate Fellowship from SDSU, and received an ARCS Scholar Award from the San Diego Chapter.

May 2025

Emily Chapman received the Global Health Engagement Award from the SDSU School of Public Health for her commitment to public health efforts abroad.

April 2025

Ashley Chang received Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award from the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

February 2025

Jade Roccoforte received a Professional Development Fund Grant from the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation.

November 2024

Thomas Morales received a 2025 California Sea Grant State Fellowship with the South Coast California State Coastal Conservancy.

September 2024

Tina Tran began her M.S. at UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.

July 2024

Samantha Shinder received the SDSU College of Health and Human Sciences Student Research Award.

June 2024

Research Specialist Kaylen Wilson started a new job at SANDAG.

May 2024

Chelsea Contreras-Valencia received a National Hispanic Medical Association's Hispanic Leadership Development Fellowship supported by HHS Office of Minority Health.

April 2024

Research Assistant Ahira Medalla started a new job at J.S. Held.

April 2024

Tina Tran received the Best Undergraduate Student Presentation Award from the Southern California Chapter of SETAC.

Fall 2023

Maggie Stack was elected 2023-2024 President of the Southern California Chapter of SETAC.

August 2023

Eunha Hoh received an SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award at the 2023 SDSU All-University Convocation.

August 2023

Alex Lee and Ashley Chang received SDSU Research Scholarships.

July 2023

Karissa Soriano received a CBCRP Diversity Award Supplement for her Undergraduate Breast Cancer Research Fellowship.

July 2023

Maggie Stack was featured in KPBS news: Toxic microplastics found where the rubber meets the road.

January 2023

Josh Espinoza received a California Sea Grant State Fellowship from CalTrans.

October 2022

Tina Tran received a 2022 SoCal SETAC Student Research Grant Award.

August 2022

Tina Tran received a CSU COAST Undergraduate Research Award.

August 2021

Melissa Pennington received the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Student Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

August 2021

Christine Stewart received a Student Support Research Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

July 2021

Thomas Morales received a Switzer Fellowship.

May 2021

Jade Johnson received the Hanlon Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the SDSU School of Public Health.

February 2021

Jordan Alejo received a California Sea Grant State Fellowship (State Water Resources Control Board).

August 2020

Katie Nynas received a Student Support Research Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

August 2020

Jordan Alejo received the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Student Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

August 2020

Laila Hamzai started her Ph.D. in Global Health at SDSU/UCSD under the supervision of Drs. Quintana and Hoh.

August 2020

Nalima Joshi received the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Student Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

June 2020

Jordan Alejo, Pam Olguin, and Jade Johnson received SDSU Research Scholarships.

June 2020

Jade Johnson received a Switzer Fellowship.

February 2020

Research Assistant Daniel Chang started a new job at Eurofins.

November 2019

Laila Hamzai received a Student Support Research Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

November 2019

Pamela Olguin received the Cornelius Hopper Diversity Award Student Fellowship from the California TRDRP.

October 2019

Jade Johnson was selected for a graduate student research grant from the Southern California Chapter of SETAC.

September 2019

Elisa Dufloux, visiting graduate student from Sigma-Clermont (France), successfully completed her three-month research internship.

June 2019

Carolina Molina and Professor Carlos Manzano from Universidad de Chile completed a two-month stay for a collaborative project.

May 2019

Margaret Stack received the Best Graduate Student Presentation Award from the Southern California Chapter of SETAC.

May 2019

Jade Johnson received the Betty Joe Crawford Memorial Award for mentoring, outreach, and outstanding contributions to STEM.

April 2019

Margaret Stack took 1st place at the CSU Student Research Competition in the Interdisciplinary Category.

April 2019

Margaret Stack received a CSU COAST Student Travel Award.

March 2019

Margaret Stack received the President's Award at SDSU's Student Research Symposium.

August 2017

Jennifer Cossaboon started the DVM/Ph.D. Dual Degree program at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

May 2017

Jennifer Cossaboon received the Hanlon Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the SDSU Graduate School of Public Health.

April 2017

Chelsea Basirico started a position at the U.S. Naval Hospital.

September 2016

Cuong Tran started the M.D. program at the University of Washington Medical School.

August 2016

Raisa Luna started a position at the Department of Environmental Health, County of San Diego.

July 2016

Jenn Cossaboon was elected to the board of the Southern California SETAC Chapter.

May 2016

Jenn Cossaboon was awarded the 2016 Southern California SETAC Chapter's Graduate Research Grant.