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Morley Dupuy is senior enrolled in Biomedical
Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. He has received the
Marshall/Chavex Scholarhsip and has
interned a the Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in the Biomedical Engineering
department in Boston, MA. Morley is
persident of WPI’s NSBE chapter.
Attendance at NSBE National Conventions
has been a great inspiration to Morley.
Quontay Turner is a graduate of the WPI; she received her
Bachelor of Science degree in Civil
Engineering and a Bachlor of Arts degreee
in Environmental Studies. Quontay
received the Crimson and Gray 2010 and
2011 ALANA award. She worked in the
Costa Rica National Telephone and Electric
Company; currently she is employed at the
Turner Construction Company working as a
field engineer.
Renee Walker was a member of
the WPI class of 2010 and
graduated with a degree in
Electrical and Computer
Engineering and a minor in
Computer Science. She published
the cover article in the Women
Engineer Magazine this past spring
and was awarded the LSAMP Multicultural Leadership Award
during her junior year at WPI and won second place in the the
Strage Innovation Award in 2009. Currently employed as a
hardware engineer at EMC coroporation since graduation.
Andrew Osei is a member of the 2014 class at WPI majoring
in Civil Engineering with minors in both
Spanish and Business. He was awarded the
New Greek Member Scholar, On-Track
Freshman of 2011. Currently Andrew is a
Senator in NSBE, treasurer of the Black
Student Union and a member of the men’s
varsity basketball practice team and an
active member of the Habitat for Humanity.
He also participated in the Buenos Aires Immersion program.
Laura Ashley Alegbeleye is a senior chemicl engineering
student at WPI. She has participated in the
Urban Elephant in Bangkok, Thailand as part of
her interactive Qualifying Project. Laura
received an honorable mention in the President’s
IQP Award. During the summer of 2010 Laura-
Ashley participated in the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission. Currently she is
employed as a Project Application Engineer in a
Rotation Program at Invensys Operastions Management.
Ronald Duarte graduated summa cum laude from the
University of Rhode Island with a
B.S. degree in computer engineering
in May 2011. While at URI he was
part a research team in Taiwan at Kun
Shan University which was funded by
the National Science Foundation to
work on 3D interactive visualization
and motion capture. Ronald’s
undergraduate research as a LSAMP scholar was on Branch
Predictor computer architecture. A native of the Dominican
Republic, who served in the U.S. Army’s 101 st Airborne
Division before coming to URI, was also awarded the Halkey
K. Ross Merit Scholarship and the Nelson C. White award for
having the second highest G.P.A. in computer engineering.
Currently Ronald is a graduate student at URI.
Ronald Scott received a B.S. degree in kinesiology in 2010.
Ronald is an LSAMP scholar who
was part of the first summer
enrichment program at URI in 2001
when he was at Times 2 Academy
High School. He loves seeing results
of his work, as he completed the
center’s 12-week program that
included exercise, nutrition
information, stress management tips,
and behavioral and dietary modifications. He volunteered at
the Center for Cardiac Fitness at Miriam Hospital in
Providence, R.I. Ronald was offered a position with the
hospital after graduation. He said that the internship was the
best thing he had done and it wouldn’t have happened if not
for his participation as an LSAMP scholar and mentor. Ronald
is an exercise physiologist creating exercise prescriptions for
cardiac patients. He hopes eventually to become a physician’s
assistant.
John P. Brito obtained his B.S. degree in
civil and environmental engineering on
May 21, 2011 where he was an LSAMP
Scholar and president of the URI NSBE
chapter, Regional Pre-Collegiate
Chairperson, and New England Zone
Board Alumni Relations Chairperson.
John also provided tutoring for grades 9-
10 in math for students not meeting grade span expectation.
He received a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation
Fellowship and the H. Winfield Tucker, Jr. Engineering
Scholarship for Merit. Currently John is a graduate student at
the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Yasah Vezele received her B.S. in
chemical engineering with a
pharmaceutical track from the University
of Rhode Island in 2010. She currently is in
the master’s program at URI studying
biomedical and pharmaceutical science.
Yasah’s undergraduate work as a LSAMP
scholar got her into the Summer
Fellowship: Research in Science and Engineering (RISE)
program at Rutgers University 2009 and in 2008 she was
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