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Adrienne K. Jones earned her B.S. in
Biology from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in
2006. While an undergraduate at
UMES, research experience when she
participated in National Institute on
Aging Intramural Summer Research
Program and completed a project titled
Red Cell Oxidative Stress in HANDLS Subjects. Currently,
she is enrolled in a Ph.D. program.
Ashley Jones earned her B.S. in
Mathematics Education from the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
(UMES). She continued at UMES, to
earn her M.A.T. in Teaching.
Jasmine Keene earned her B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD) in 2011. While at UMD, she
was a member of NSBE and served as
the chapter programs chair, chapter vice
president, and the region 2 academic
excellence chair. As an undergraduate,
she became a member of Pi Tau Sigma
and Tau Beta Pi honor societies, as well as the club volleyball
team. She also had internships with Baltimore Gas & Electric,
Northrop Grumman, and ExxonMobil Corporation. Currently,
she is a first-year M.S. student in Materials Science and
Engineering at the University of Virginia.
Benyam Z. Kinde, was selected as the
valedictorian of the class of 2010 at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County (UMBC) where he earned his
B.S. summa cum laude in Biological
Sciences. After a nomination by Peter
Agre, a medical doctor, professor, and
molecular biologist at The Johns
Hopkins University who was awarded
the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he
was one of only 500 young researchers selected in a rigorous
competition to attend the 2010 Meeting of Nobel Laureates in
Lindau, Germany. It is an honor for which he worked hard
throughout his undergraduate years at UMBC. At the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), he conducted research on
HIV that provides insight into the life cycle of the virus and an
understanding about where the virus spreads. In addition, he
conducted neurophysiology research related to Circadian
rhythm at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). He
was president of the Golden Key International Honor Society,
and co-founder of Getting Everyone to Unleash Potential
(GET UP!), and he volunteered, tutoring genetics in the
Department of Biological Sciences. He is one of only 10
students in 2011 to be named a Gilliam Fellow by the HHMI.
Currently, he is enrolled in the Harvard-MIT combined
M.D./Ph.D. program.
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Isaac Kinde earned his B.S. magna cum
laude in Biological Sciences from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County (UMBC) in 2005. While at
UMBC, he took full advantage of
opportunities to gain real-life experience
in the biological sciences. He conducted
HIV research in the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute at UMBC, and he conducted
neurophysiology research related to Circadian rhythm at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). He also was a
researcher a medical laboratory at the University of California,
San Francisco. He contributed to two articles on his research
published in the Journal of Molecular Biology and the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also
volunteered, tutoring genetics in the Department of Biological
Sciences. He was president of the Golden Key International
Honor Society, as well as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Currently, he is enrolled in a M.D./Ph.D. program at The
Johns Hopkins University.
Candice E. Jones, M.D. earned her
B.S. cum laude in Biological Sciences
from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County in 2003. She
completed her M.D. program at the
University of Pittsburgh in 2008.
Christine Kiruthu earned her B.S. magna
cum laude in Chemistry from the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
(UMES) in 2010. She participated in three
summer internships at the UMES
Department of Natural Sciences, Howard
University Amgen Scholars Program, and
The Johns Hopkins University. She was
awarded a post-baccalaureate fellowship at the NIH-National
Cancer Institute, and she is currently in the second year of her
fellowship in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and
Genetics, in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch
working with Dr. Sam Mbulaiteye. Her future plans are to
earn an M.P.H. in Epidemiology and an M.D. and become a
physician.
Jonathan Kumi earned his B.S. in Civil
Engineering at the University of Maryland,
College Park (UMD) in 2011. As an
LSAMP undergraduate, he conducted
research on the sensitivity of pavement
performance to traffic characteristics and
the efficient dynamic distribution of
security assets in transit systems, addressing risk coverage in
passenger transit infrastructure. His work will be submitted to
INFORMS for publication. He is currently pursuing an M.S.
in Civil Systems at UMD, where he plans to focus his research
on renewable energy market optimization.