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Brice Cannon performed research for the European
Organization for Nuclear Research at
the University of Arizona, and
participated in a cultural immersion
experience in Cairo, Egypt. He
received his B.S. degrees in Optical
Engineering and Applied Mathematics
from Norfolk State University, May
2009. He is currently a Bridge to the
Doctorate Fellow at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County and a Ph.D. candidate in the
Electrical Engineering program concentrating on photonics.
Dr. Nicholas Lumsden and Dr. Kimberly Lumsden are
2004 graduates of Norfolk State
University from the department of
Chemistry. While at NSU, both
received the Dozoretz National
Institute for Mathematics and Applied
Sciences Scholarship. Upon
graduation, Nicholas attended Eastern
Virginia Medical School where he
earned his M.D. in 2008; Kimberly
obtained her M.D. degree from Penn
State University. The former NSU alumni were married in
May 2008. In 2011, the couple opened their first family
medical practice.
Dr. Arthur Reynolds received the Doctor of Dental Surgery
(D.D.S.) degree from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May
2011. He completed his undergraduate
work at Norfolk State University as a
Physics major and WBHR-LSAMP
scholar. Dr. Reynolds was selected to
present his research at several NSF
funded conferences including HBCU-
UP Undergraduate Research Symposium. Dr. Reynolds is
currently practicing dentistry in North Carolina.
Dr. Jamila Crawford is an Obstetrics and Gynecology
resident at the Texas Tech University School of Medicine.
She is a 2003 graduate of Norfolk State
University (NSU) with a B.S. degree in
Biology Pre-Med and was the recipient of
the WBHR-LSAMP research scholarship.
She was a NSU student representative at
the Thurgood Marshall Leadership
Institute and Black Engineer of the Year
Awards Conference. She earned her MD degree from the
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in
Greenville, NC.
Phillip Hayes Jr. is the recipient of the Indiana Space Grant
Consortium Masters Fellowship at Purdue
University. He graduated with honors from
Norfolk State University in May 2008 with
a B.S. in computer Science. He interned
with the National Association of
Mathematics and Computational Science
Institute, NASA, and Carnegie Mellon University. Phillip’s
contributions to the project “Inventor’s Desk,” won him 2nd
place at the Window Media Player Skins Challenge
sponsored by Microsoft in 2007.
Brandon Little-Darku’s presentation on “Engineering
Education Using Robotics” yielded him 1 st Place at the
WBHR-LSAMP Research Poster
Competition in 2006. He received
other awards also, Brandon received a
B.S. degree from Norfolk State
University and M.S. in Electronics
Engineering with a concentration in
RF Integrated Circuit Design and
Bioelectrics in 2010 from Boston
University. He currently works as an
Electrical Engineer for the U.S. Department of the Army at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
Jared Dixon participated in a cultural immersion experience
in China and received a full
academic scholarship from the
Dozoretz National Institute for
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
(DNIMAS) program where he was
a HBCU-UP scholar and tutor.
Jared received the B.S. degree in
Optical Engineering from Norfolk State University. He is
currently a graduate student at the University of Maryland
Baltimore County working with Dr. Anthony Johnson in
ultra-fast spectroscopy.
Jerrod Young conducted research on at Norfolk State
University (NSU) under the WBHR-LSAMP Program.
Jerrod received his B.S. in Optical
Engineering from NSU in May 2010.
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at
the University of Arizona, College of
Optical Science, and co-op in the
optics branch for NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center. He also served
as intern with CREOL: College of Optics and Photonics,
University of Central Florida Materials Research Sciences
and Engineering Center (MRSEC), University of Maryland,
College Park, MD.
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