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Allen T. Graham is a graduating senior
at South Carolina State University. He is
majoring in Mechanical Engineering
Technology with a minor in
mathematics. His hard work and
dedication has earned him internship
positions at Savannah River Site and the
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant where
he was recognized in the Paducah Sun
for contributing to the Southwest
groundwater plume project in Kentucky. Mr. Graham plans to
attend graduate school at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical
University obtaining his Masters of Aviation Science and
MBA in Aviation.
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Herschel R. Roberts is a senior physics
major at South Carolina State University. He
is a member of the Honors College and
serves as Vice President of the Society of
Physics Students. Herschel says “I’ve been
interested in science since I’ve been very
young”. He has interned at Firelands
Regional Medical Center (Summer ’09);
Clemson University Bioengineering
Department (Summer ’10 and ’11).
Stanley Williams is a Junior Biology
Major at South Carolina State
University. He has earned a 3.7 GPA
while actively participating in several
organizations including NAAAHP,
NAACP, Health Professions Society,
Golden Key International Honor Society,
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and is also
1 of 7 Drum Majors for the Marching 101 Band. Stanley says
he knew STEM was for him when as a child he realized
“science was something that came natural to me, the idea of
taking an observation and building from it an experiment that
can solve issues in all aspects of life”. Stanley plans to attend
medical school.
Terrell Gibson graduated from
Morris College Cum Laude in
biology in 2006. He joined the
program in Business
Entrepreneurship at the California
State University, San Bernardino, but
soon after graduation, he discovered
that science was his first love and enrolled in the Ph.D.
program in Environmental Toxicology at the Texas Southern
University in 2008. His doctoral research is in the
bioassessment of metal exposure in the urban environment and
in vitro lunar dust and metal toxicity. Terrell is scheduled to
receive his doctorate degree in 2012.
Morgan Perry Davis, Jr. arrived
at Morris College campus during
the summer of 2006 armed with AP
Calculus courses and ready to start
his pre-engineering program.
During the summers of 2007 and
2008, Perry participated in
computer research projects at USC
involving scientometric analysis.
During the 2008-2009 academic year, he participated in a
research project at Morris College that culminated in the
publication of a paper in the Journal of the South Carolina
Academy of Science (SCAS) in 2009.
Perry is now on the second year of his PhD program in
Computer Engineering at Tuskegee University.
Shekelia Baccus joined the
HBCU-UP and SCAMP
programs at Morris College in
the summer of 2006 and soon
became a star among her peers.
After her sophomore year, she
engaged in research with Dr.
Edward Levin at Duke
University Medical Center. In 2009, she won a $10,000
UNCF-Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship
award and during that summer, she participated in a research
project at Merck. She enrolled at MIT in the fall of 2010 after
graduating from Morris College Summa Cum Laude in May
2010. Her PhD education in Biotechnology is funded by the
Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research.
Jessica Mccoy graduated Magna Cum
Laude in mathematics from Morris
College in May 2011. While at
Morris, Jessica participated in
superconductivity research projects
with her mentor Dr. J. Amirzadeh. In
the summer of 2009, she gained a
research internship at the Savannah
River Site in Aiken, South Carolina.
Prior to her graduation, Jessica started preparing for graduate
school and actively examined the electrical engineering
programs at several engineering institutions. Jessica is
presently in the first year of her doctoral degree program in
electrical engineering at North Carolina A&T State University
studying Electrical Engineering.
Quentin Ballard graduated Summa
Cum Laude with a degree in
Mathematics from Morris College in
2005. He was a presidential scholar
(2001-2004), and the recipient of the
Luns C. Richardson Endowed
Scholarship in the same year. His
professor, Dr. Keith Johnson, testified
that he has not met such a sharp
mathematics student as Quentin during the 14 years he has
been teaching at Morris College. Upon his graduation from
Morris, he enrolled at the Virginia State University where he