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Carleasha Dorsey (Elizabeth City
State University) received her
undergraduate degree in biology
minored in chemistry. She is
currently a pharmacy student at
Florida A & M University.
Bassam Dourassi (George Mason
University) graduated in spring 2011
with a BS in electrical engineering.
He was on List every
semester during his undergraduate
career. Bassam participated in the
first annual VA-NC Alliance Summer
Research Program, and is currently employed at Intel.
Rachael Dunn (Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State
University) is a member of the class
of 2011 and is currently attending
veterinary school, where she is the
vice president of the class of 2014.
While an undergraduate, Rachael worked in the Yuan
laboratory at Tech, on the interactions among enteric
viruses, probiotics, and the host immune system. The
lab research activities focused on pathogenesis and
innate and adaptive immune responses induced by
enteric viruses, mechanism of immune modulation by
probiotics, and development of safer and more
effective vaccines against viral gastroenteritis.
Rachael also held a 2009 summer research
Multicultural Academic Opportunities (MAOP)
internship at Virginia Tech.
Robyn Evans (Elizabeth City
State University), Class of 2012,
will receive her BS in mathematics
with a minor in computer science.
Robyn attended multiple
conferences and presented research
in 2009. She also participated in the Center for
Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), established
by the National Science Foundation with the mission
of developing new technologies and computer
models to measure and predict the response of sea
level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in
Greenland and Antarctica. Robyn worked with
matrix multiplication through parallel computing.
Shantoya Evans (Virginia
Commonwealth University), an
electrical engineering major, served
on the executive board of VCU's
chapter of the National Society of
Black Engineers. She was a
scholarship recipient of the Hampton Roads chapter
of the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and
Electronics Association) and the Society of Women
Engineers.
Shavonda Evans (Elizabeth City State
degree in biology and went on to work
at Abbott Laboratories. She presented
her research, Effect of TRAIL on
Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast
Cancer Cell Lines HTB-129, at the 2009 Virginia
Tech Undergraduate Research and Prospective
Graduate Student Conference.
Avis Foster (George Mason
University) completed her BS in
applied mathematics with a minor
in visual technology, graduating in
spring 2011. For six semesters she
List. Avis
was selected by a group of faculty researchers in the
Mathematics Department to work on an NSF-funded
research project and presented her results both at
George Mason and at national conferences. She is
attending the University of Alabama for graduate
studies.
Kaiem Frink (Elizabeth City
State University) completed both
with a minor in GIS) degrees at
ECSU. He was selected for
Among other research
projects, Kaiem assisted with NASA grant proposals
for the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory at the Rosen
Center for Advanced Computing.
Taliah Glenn (Bennett College for
Women) is a senior biology major
from Newark, New Jersey. Taliah
participated in the Collaboration
Around Research in Education
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