“Working at San Francisco State with other students is when I fell in love with research science. The research award provides up to $8.6 million for each scholar for the next 10 years. Mendoza’s recent accolade recognizes early career faculty for their outstanding research and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in science. When the Howard Hughes Medical Institute named him one of 31 inaugural Freeman Hrabowski scholars earlier this year, he was quick to thank his SF State mentors for setting him up for success. I had to be found to be where I am,” said Mendoza (B.S., ’03), crediting SF State’s part in his journey. Thanks to them, Mendoza is now at a top research university as a faculty scientist whose accomplishments were recently recognized by one of the premier research organizations in the United States. His parents immigrated to the United States from a small farming town in Mexico where they had limited educational opportunities. SF State alumnus Juan Mendoza gets emotional thinking about how much has changed in his family in just one generation.
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