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Andrea Ansted (Elizabeth City
State University) graduated with a
BS in biology and pre-dental
studies. She is currently teaching
sixth-grade science at Henderson
Middle School in Henderson,
North Carolina.
Chantiel Awkard (University of
Virginia), Class of 2012 majoring
in biochemistry, was an honors
society student in high school. She
was also a scholarship recipient at
U.Va., and a member of the
executive board of the U.Va.
chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.
Chantiel served as a peer advisor for incoming
students in 2009-2010.
Jamika Baltrop (Elizabeth City
State University) received her
science with a minor in GIS and
remote sensing and is continuing
her studies in the Bridge to the
Doctorate program at Howard
University in Washington, D.C. Jamika conducted
undergraduate research under Dr. Malcolm
LeCompte in the Antarctic Temperature Mapping
Team.
Ashley Barham (Bennett College
for Women), from Newark, NJ,
has been admitted to Duke
University School of Nursing for
fall 2011. Ashley was
instrumental in implementing
many community service
activities at the college. During the summer of 2009
she was an intern at the Making a Difference in
Virginia
Virginia /North Carolina LSAMP
Bennett College for Women * Commonwealth University * Elizabeth City State University
The University of Virginia * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Nursing Program at Duke University. In the summer
of 2010, she worked on a research project titled Can
Chemical Maps Indicate Interstellar Methyl
Formate? in the Center for Chemistry of the
Universe track of the inaugural Virginia-North
Carolina Alliance Summer Research Program at the
University of Virginia.
Andrew Bennett-Jackson
(University of Virginia), a member
of the class of 2012 majoring in
chemistry, was a director in U.Va.'s
volunteer tutoring program and
worked in the lab of chemistry
professor and MacArthur Fellow Dr.
Brooks Pate. Andrew attended the Alliance's first
Summer Research Program in 2010, where he
presented A Fourier Transform Microwave
Spectrometer with Double Resonance Capabilities.
Ebonitta Boykin (Bennett College
for Women) was the top 2011
graduate in the Division of Natural
& Behavioral Sciences/
Mathematics. She has been admitted
to the Nursing Program at Duke
University and will start her studies
in fall 2011. Instrumental to her admission was a
previous summer internship at the Duke CARE
Program (Collaboration Around Research and
Education) where she worked on Evaluation of
Preconception Care for Postpartum Care Benefits.
Lanisha Brown (Bennett College
for Women) received the
at
the college and was also a constant
presence o
Lists. In the summer of 2009, she worked at the
Ecological Research Station at La Selva Tropical
Rainforest in Cost Rica with the Organization of
Tropical Studies. In the summer of 2010, she was
part of the Bioscience Undergraduate Summer
Research Programs at the University of Utah,
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