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Kendra Baker is a computer science
student at the University of Maryland,
College Park (UMD). After her
expected graduation in 2014, she plans
to work in the cyber security field. She
currently serves as Outreach Coordinator
of the Association of Women in
Computing at UMD. She has participated in numerous
LSAMP programs including the Summer Bridge and the
Undergraduate Research Programs. Her current research
project is focused on the process of utilizing alternative
sources of energy (e.g., solar thermal and wind energy) to
power mobile electronics such as cell phones. She plans to
study abroad in Italy.
Floyd Bates earned his B.S. in Chemistry
at Johnson C. Smith University in 2007.
He was awarded a 2008-10 LSAMP
Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship at the
University of Maryland, College Park
where he currently is a Ph.D. student in
Chemistry. After graduation, he plans to
develop new materials and devices for
industrial applications.
Carlise R. (Douglas) Bethel, Ph.D.
earned her B.S. cum laude in Biological
Sciences from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in
1998. She continued at UMBC and
completed her Ph.D. program in
Molecular and Cell Biology in 2006.
She is the first African American to earn
a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UMBC. She
received the Acres of Diamonds Award at the National
Institutes of Health Minority Training Research Forum the
Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award from the National Cancer
Institute. Upon completing her Ph.D., she received a Cancer
Research Training Fellowship and went on to her postdoctoral
program in cancer research at The Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Taiese Bingham, Ph.D. earned her B.S.
summa cum laude in Biology from the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
(UMES) in 2005. As an undergraduate at
UMES, she received numerous awards
and honors including: Honors Program,
LSAMP Scholar, Beta Kappa Chi
Scientific Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor
Society, and MARC U* STAR Scholar. She completed both
her M.S. program in Pharmacology (2007) and her Ph.D.
program in Pharmacology (2009) at the New York University
School of Medicine. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship
at the Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital Boston in
2010. Currently, she is Manager of Pyschotropic Drug
Intervention Program Analytics at Beacon Health Strategies.
Anika (nee Alfred) Bissahoyo, Ph.D.
earned her B.S. in Chemistry from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 1998. She completed her
Ph.D. program in Toxicology at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill School of Medicine in 2005. She currently is employed
as Director of Development/Proposal Writer at Claflin
University.
Mark Bivens earned his B.S. Electrical
Engineering from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore. He went on to
pursue the Advanced M.S. program at
Morgan State University (MSU). He
currently is employed as the Vice
President of IEEE Energy and Power
Organization at MSU and is also
working for Naval Sea Systems
Command at the Washington Navy Yard Power and Energy.
Robin N. Brewer earned her B.S. in
2011 from University of Maryland,
College Park where she participated in
the LSAMP Undergraduate Research and
Summer Bridge Programs. As an active
participant in NSBE, she has presented
her research at several conferences. She
was awarded a 2011-13 LSAMP Bridge
to the Doctorate Fellowship at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Currently, she is a first-year Ph.D. student in Human-Centered
Computing at UMBC.
Tiffani J. Bright, Ph.D. earned her B.A. in
Sociology from the College of William &
Mary in 2001 and her B.S. in Information
Systems from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County in 2004. She completed
her Ph.D. program in Biomedical
Informatics at Columbia University in
2009. Her research interests focus on
determining how health information technology is achieving
improved performance through the effective adoption and use
on care processes and patient outcomes. She recently
completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University in the
Department of Community and Family Medicine.
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