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Tony Price is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Electrical Engineering at the University of
South Florida (USF). A native of the Detroit,
MI area, he participated in the Project Upward
Bound prior to enrolling at Clark Atlanta
University (CAU), where he earned his B.S. in
Electrical Engineering at CAU in 2004. He has
been the recipient of several fellowship awards,
including the NSF Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate
Fellowship, NSF GRFP Fellowship, NSF S-STEM Fellowship,
Sloan Minority Graduate Fellowship, and McKnight Doctoral
Fellowship. Mr. Price is scheduled to complete his dissertation
by May 2012.
Darkeyah Reuven, Ph.D. received his B.S. degree in
Chemistry from Georgia State University in
1999 and his M.S. degree in Health Care
Management from Mercer University, Atlanta,
GA. He has completed his Doctorate degree
in Chemistry at Clark Atlanta University in
2009, with a research focus in the synthesis,
modification and characterization of
electroconductive polymers for biosensor applications in the
research laboratory of Dr. Ishrat Khan. He was a NSF-CREST
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Functional Nanoscale
Materials in the research laboratory of Dr. Michael D. Williams
at CAU. Currently, Dr. Reuven is a PREM Post-Doctoral
Fellow in the center for Partnership for Research and Education
in Materials (PREM) in the research laboratory of Dr. XiaoQian
Wang.
Sharri Shipp is a senior at Georgia State University in Atlanta,
Georgia. She will be graduating with a
B.S. degree in Biology in December
2012. Ms. Shipp held internships with
Morehouse school of Medicine and
CDC in a group called Public Health
Fellowship Summer Program in 2010.
She presented her research on Native
American to culminate her internship. Ms Shipp is currently
engaged in research under the mentorship of Dr. Casonya
Johnson. She plans to earn the MD/Ph.D.
Matthew Temba graduated from Morehouse College in May
2010 with the B.S. Degree in Mathematics. His undergraduate
research experience included several summers
of research in mathematics and mathematical
physics and specifically in a GA Tech
summer program in Metz, France. He is
currently a second year Applied Mathematics
graduate student at the University of
Maryland in College Park, MD, studying
Operations Research. He is a NSF-LSAMP Bridge to the
Doctorate Fellowship recipient. He says: “without the
assistance of the LSAMP program, both with funding, but more
importantly with support, my successes thus far would be
impossible.”
Keon Reid spent the summer of 2011 working with Dr. Hamelberg's
research group whose focus is on application and
development of theoretical and computational methods
chemistry research lab at Georgia State University. In
addition, he ran NMR samples for the organic
chemistry lab. Mr. Reid is in his sophomore year
majoring in Chemistry. He is currently active in the
GA LSAMP and is a Netzel fellow. Keon aspires to
become a Computational/Biophysical chemist.
Syed Ahsan Rizvi is a senior at Georgia State University, majoring in
Biology. Mr. Rizvi is expected to complete his
degree in December of 2011. In 2009, he was
awarded a McNair Scholarship and presented his
research on sexual differentiation in zebra finch at
numerous conferences. In 2010, he was became a
Brains and Behavior Scholar, LSAMP Scholar,
and a University Scholar. Currently, he is
completing his Honors Thesis on Neurosteroid Production in the Brain
of Australia Zebra Finch.
Michael G. Souffrant is in his senior year at Georgia State University.
A major in chemistry, Mr. Souffrant’s research in
biochemistry focuses on the histone proteins and their
contribution in causing cancer while binding to DNA.
He serves the community volunteering at Atlanta
Children's Shelter program and the Georgia Science
Olympiad Regional tournament. He has also served
as a teacher’s assistant, grader/proctor in organic chemistry and part of
the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Marquitta J. White majored in biology at Clark Atlanta University
and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in human genetics at Vanderbilt
University and an M.S. in Applied Statistics. Ms.
White’s scholarly work on maternal and fetal
genotypes was published on the PLoS One, peerreviewed
science publication website. She has
presented her research at national and international
conferences. In 2010 her research was published in
PLoS One, an online science journal.
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