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Taler Jefferson (Bennett College
for Women) graduated in 2010 and
is pursuing a in
biology at Hampton University.
While at Bennett, Taler participated
in the Making a Difference in
Nursing Program at Duke and also participated in the
Pharmacy Technician Training Initiative (PTTI) at
North Carolina A&T. She also served as a Black
College Fund intern/ambassador, raising funds for
eleven historically black colleges and institutions.
Corey Jenkins, Jr. (Johnson C.
Smith University) graduated magna
cum laude with a Bachelor of
Science in information systems
engineering. Currently, Corey is
interning at Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory in Richland,
Washington, working in the software engineering and
architecture group. He will be attending Rochester
Institute of Technology in the fall to complete a
master's in software engineering.
Kiera Johnson (Elizabeth City State
University) received her
undergraduate degree in biology and
is currently a pharmacy student at
Elizabeth City State University.
Tiffany Johnson (Bennett College
for Women) graduated in May
2010 and is currently enrolled in
the pharmacy program at Florida
A&M University. Tiffany
graduated in the top five percent of
her class. In the summer of 2008
(Collaborating Around Research and Education)
Prostate Cancer Program. In the summer of 2009, she
was selected for a research internship at the
Friday Harbor
Laboratories.
Jade Jones (Johnson C. Smith
University) is from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She graduated from
JCSU in 2008 with a major in
chemistry and minor in
mathematics. She received a 2011 Woodrow Wilson
Teaching Fellowship for teaching in high-need
secondary schools, and completed her master's degree
from Purdue University in chemistry in 2011.
Kiara Jones
College), Class of 2013, is a
sophomore double majoring in
chemistry and forensic science. She
conducted research with the
Undergraduate Research Experience
in ocean, marine, and polar science in 2010 at
Elizabeth City State University under the mentorship
of Dr. Malcolm LeCompte. Titled Survey of Post
LGM Environment, the research included analyzing
soil samples supporting the possibility of an
extraterrestrial impact that took place about 13,000
years ago. Kiara learned how to operate a scanning
electron microscope, and how to extract impact
markers from soil samples, among other skills
necessary during this REU.
Bradford Knight (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University), a chemical
engineering major, is a junior and
an honors student at Virginia
Tech. In the summer of 2011, he
interned with Exxon Mobil
Chemical Company in Houston,
Texas and learned about process
contact engineering for the
production of polypropylene.
Tarek Lahlou (George Mason
University) finished his BS in
electrical engineering in spring 2011.
In 2009 he began working on a
project titiled Radio Transmitter
Localization for Health Care
Applications in Rural Guatemala and
published a paper with his advisor.
Tarek is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has
been awarded the MIT School of Engineering
Lemelson Fellowship.
Lauren Lee (Elizabeth City State
University) has a BS in biology from
ECSU and is currently in the graduate
pharmacy program at Campbell
University.
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