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Jabril Johnson earned his B.S. in
Biology from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore in 2009. He is
an Alliance for Graduate Education and
the Professoriate Program Scholar at
Howard University. Also, he is a
graduate teaching assistant for Genetics,
and he is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program.
Kennita A. Johnson, Ph.D. earned her
B.S. in Physics from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County 1996. She
completed her M.S. program in Medical
Physics in 1998 and her Ph.D. program in
Biomedical Engineering in 2003 at the
University of Florida. Her previous
research positions include Postdoctoral
Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Health
Sciences and independent consultant. Currently, she is a
Researcher in the Small Animal Ultrasound Lab at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mela R. Johnson, Ph.D. earned
her B.S. magna cum laude in
Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 2005. In 2009, she
completed her Ph.D. program in
Bioengineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. She
completed research on “Sustained
release of BMP-2 in a lipid-based microtube vehicle” at the
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, George W
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology.
Rashad Johnson is a fourth year
Electrical Engineering student at the
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD), and he participated in the
LSAMP Summer Bridge Program in
2008. He currently is the President of
the Student Community for Outreach,
Retention, and Excellence, and he
previously served as the Treasurer. He interned at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture in 2010 and at the Brookhaven
National Laboratory in 2011. His future plans are to gain an
internship pertaining to the field of microprocessors and also
earn an M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D. earned his
B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County (UMBC) in 2003. He continued
his studies at UMBC where he
completed his M.S. in Chemical
Engineering in 2002, his Biochemical
Regulatory Engineer Certificate in 2008,
and his Ph.D. in Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering in 2008. The
title of his dissertation iss Platelet-S. aureus Interactions: A
Study of Thrombus Formation in Whole Blood in the Presence
of Bacteria Under Physiological Shear Conditions.
Gilbert Jones is a senior Civil Engineering student at the
University of Maryland, College Park. His academic career
began in 2008 when he enrolled in the LSAMP Summer
BRIDGE Program. He is a candidate for May 2012
graduation. Since the summer of 2009,
he has worked as an intern for Booz
Allen Hamilton, where he has
supported the Deputy Under Secretary
of Defense for Installations and
Environment (DUSD I&E). He aspires
to earn an M.S. and a Ph.D. in
Structural (Civil) Engineering.
Jhacova A. (nee Williams) Jones
earned her B.S. in Mathematics at
Xavier University of Louisiana in 2006,
and she received a 2006-08 LSAMP
Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship at
the University of Maryland, College
Park (UMD). She completed her M.S.
program in Applied Mathematics and
Scientific Computation at UMD in 2008.
Her thesis is entitled, “The Use of Preconditioning for
Training Support Vector Machines”. Currently, she is
teaching mathematics at Xavier University.
Adam Kareem earned his B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD) in 2009. He was awarded the
NACME Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship
upon entrance into his Ph.D. program,
and he is currently a third-year Ph.D.
student in Mechanical Engineering at
UMD. He conducts research in simulation and modeling of
the dynamics of an atomic force microscope (AFM)
microcantilever. He has presented his work at the ASME
IDETC/CIE Conference in Washington D.C., as well as the
14th International non-contact AFM Conference in Lindau,
Germany.
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