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Sean Wint earned his B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of
Louisville in 2010, and he received the
2010-12 LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate
Fellowship at the University of Maryland,
College Park (UMD). Currently, he is an
M.S. student in Telecommunications at
UMD. During the summers, he interns at Lexmark in
Kentucky. He plans to work in the field of nanotechnology
and telecommunications.
Jarred Alexander Young earned his
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from
the University of Maryland, College
Park (UMD) in 2009. As an
undergraduate, he was in the LSAMP
Undergraduate Research Program
conducting research on Plasma
Actuator technology with the UMD
Space Power and Propulsion Lab (SPPL) under the guidance
of Dr. Raymond Sedwick. He also was a member of the world
champion teams for both the 2009 NASA RASC-AL and the
2009 CanSat Competition Teams representing Maryland. He
received the LSAMP the Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship.
Currently, he is third-year Ph.D. student in Aerospace
Engineering at UMD, and he is conducting research on highenergy
propulsion plume impingement on spacecraft materials
with the SPPL as a National Minority STEM Fellow.
Kavita P. Krishnaswamy earned both
her B.S. in Mathematics and her B.S. in
Computer Science from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in
2007. Moreover, she graduated with a
perfect 4.0 grade point average. She was
awarded the 2009-11 LSAMP Bridge to
the Doctorate Fellowship at UMBC, and
she currently is a Ph.D. student in
Computer Science. Subsequently, she was awarded a
prestigious Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, an NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship, and an Access Computing
Internship to support the completion of her doctoral program.
She has conducted and presented research entitled Path
Planning of a Robotic Arm in Real-Time.
Nerg D. Achirimofor earned her
B.S. in Biological Sciences from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County (UMBC) in 2010. In
addition to being an undergraduate
LSAMP Scholar, she also was a
MARC U*STAR Scholar. Also as
an undergraduate at UMBC, she conducted research in lab of
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Michael F.
Summers, Ph.D. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program
at the University of Virginia.
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Rachel Addo earned her B.S. in Chemistry
from the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student
conducting research on the role of beta 2
cleavage in PCa cell motility in the lab of
her advisor, Robert A. Sikes, Ph.D., in the
Department of Biological Sciences at the University of
Delaware.