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Kersey Sturdivant, Ph.D. earned his
B.S. in Environmental Science from
the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore in 2006. He completed his Ph.D.
program in Marine Science at the
College of William and Mary, School
of Marine Science in 2011. During his
graduate studies, he was awarded the
Zeigler Student Achievement Award,
and the Best VIMS Ph.D. Student
Award. He has several publications in review for his
prestigious work on the effects of hypoxia on benthic
production and function in the Chesapeake Bay. Currently, he
is employed as a Marine Ecologist for the NOAA National
Marine Sanctuaries program and the Cordell Bank National
Marine Sanctuary.
Lauren Suarez earned her B.S. in
Biological Sciences from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 2007. She is enrolled as a
Ph.D. student in the Department of
Cellular and Molecular Medicine at
The Johns Hopkins University. Her
current research involves working
with DNA methyltransferase inhibitors 5-azacitidine and 2deoxy-5-azacytidine
as well as some other new compounds
thought to inhibit DNA methyltransferase activity.
Tia Tate, Ph.D. earned her B.S. in
Chemistry from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). She
completed her Ph.D. program in
Environmental Chemistry at UMES in
2006. During her graduate studies, she
served as a research fellow for the
Department of Energy. The focus of her
doctoral dissertation was “Spontaneous
Combustion of Low-Rank Coals Lignites”. She went on to
become a post-doctoral research associate focusing on laser
research in the Department of Chemistry at Florida A&M
University. She currently works as a chemist in the Forensics
Toxicology Lab for the College of Medicine at the University
of Florida.
Matthew Temba earned his B.S. in
Mathematics from Morehouse College in
2010, and he was awarded a 2010-12
LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate
Fellowship at the University of Maryland,
College Park (UMD). Currently, he is a
Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics and
Scientific Computation at UMD. After
completing his Ph.D., he plans to work in the areas of analysis
and policy.
Malcolm Taylor earned his B.S. cum
laude in Computer Engineering from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 2008. His research experiences
include the Maryland Engineering
Research Internship Teams (MERIT) at
the University of Maryland, College Park.
He worked on a project entitled
Lightweight On-Chip Decoder Design for
Information Hiding in Compiled Programs for which he
designed and prototyped a complex bit re-mapping hardware
device with purely combination logic. He also conducted
research at the Center for Cyber Defenders (CCD), Sandia
National Laboratories, Livermore, California where he
facilitated in the development of Historical Analysis and
Querying (HAQ), a log-based anomaly detection system
targeted toward attackers that use long-term reconnaissance or
attack techniques. He is currently an NSF Graduate Research
Fellow in a Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jeremy Ticey earned his B.S. in Physics
from Hampton University in 2010, and he
was awarded a 2010-12 LSAMP Bridge to
the Doctorate Fellowship at the University
of Maryland, College Park (UMD).
Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in
Materials Science and Engineering at
UMD. He plans to obtain a research position to create new
materials that will improve the daily lives of people.
Tiara D. Turner earned her B.S. in
Mathematics from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore. She was
awarded a 2008-10 LSAMP Bridge to
the Doctorate Fellowship at Delaware
State University where she has
completed her M.S. program in Applied
Mathematics, and she currently is a Ph.D. student in the
Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics and Mathematical
Physics program. In 2009, she was chosen to participate in the
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Summer
Program for graduate students at the University of Delaware.
In 2010, she was awarded first place in the Student Research
Symposium of the MSIRPC Conference at Morgan State
University. Also in 2010, she co-authored a paper titled
Detection of Periodic Motion of Visually Obscured Human
Beings using UWB Radar in the fourth International
Conference on Environment and Engineering Geophysics. In
2011, she co-authored a paper titled A Mixed Finite Element
Method for Helmholtz Transmission Eigenvalues in the ACM
journal, and she also was chosen to participate in the Gene
Golub SIAM Summer School for graduate students at the
University of British Columbia.
Sharese M. White, M.D. earned her B.S.
in Biochemistry from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County in 1997. She
earned her M.D. at the University of
Pennsylvania in 2001. Currently, she
practices Orthopedic Surgery in Virginia.
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