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Adrienne M. McFadden, M.D., J.D.
earned her B.S. cum laude in
Interdisciplinary Studies (with a focus in
Biology) from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County in 1999. She completed
her joint M.D./J.D. program at Duke
University in 2005, and she completed her
residency in Emergency Medicine at the
University of Maryland Medical Center. Currently, she
practices Emergency Medicine in Florida.
Sasha McGee, Ph.D. earned her B.S.
magna cum laude in Chemistry from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 2001. She also graduated
with Departmental Honors. She
completed her Ph.D. program in
Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) in 2008. She was
awarded the prestigious MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship
that is given only to a select group of scholars recruited
worldwide.
Jessica A. McGrath earned her B.S.
cum laude in Biological Sciences with a
minor in Sociology from the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC) in 2009. She gained research
experience as an undergraduate when
she conducted research in the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at
UMBC titled The Relationship between the Structure of the
FIV Matrix Protein and its Ability to Target the Plasma
Membrane with her mentor, HHMI Investigator, Dr. Michael
F. Summers. Currently, she is enrolled in a M.D. program at
New York University.
Santiago Miret is currently a third-year
Material Science and Engineering major
at the University of Maryland, College
Park (UMD). He is an honor student
enrolled in the Quality Enhancement
Systems and Teams (QUEST) Program
and the Hinman C.E.O.s program at
UMD. He has gained undergraduate
research experience during a summer internship as a student
engineer at Boeing. In the spring 2011 semester, he studied
abroad at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He also is
very involved with Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers, and he has served as a chapter officer every year of
his undergraduate career.
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Ashley N. Mentlik, Ph.D earned her
is B.S. in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 2006. She completed her
Ph.D. program in Cell and Molecular
Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a
researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Kristie Y. Minnis earned her B.S. in
Biology from the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore. She earned a certification in
Massage Therapy at Anne Arundel
Community College. Currently, she is
pursuing her doctorate in Chiropractic at the
University of Bridgeport College of
Chiropractic.
Ariel T. M'ndange-Pfupfu, Ph.D. began
his higher education as an LSAMP
student in the Summer Bridge Program at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County student in 2001. He gained
undergraduate research experience when
he participated in the Princeton Materials
Institute REU Program in summer 2002. As a junior, he
transferred to Stanford University where he earned both his
B.S. in Physics and his M.S. in Materials Science and
Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. program in Materials
Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.
Viviana Monje is currently pursuing a
B.S. degree in Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering with a minor in
Project Management at the University of
Maryland, College Park, and is scheduled
to graduate in 2012. She is a LSAMP
research program participant conducting
research in molecular simulation dynamics of polyunsaturated
fatty acids (PUFAs) lipid membranes. In the
summer of 2011, she participated in an REU program offered
at the University of Alabama where she performed
computational studies (Ab initio simulations) on solid-oxide
fuel cells (SOFCs) anode materials.