2010 LSAMP Magazine - University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Student News 2007-2008
varrubias and Michelle Crespo, UCLA; Graciela Cruz, UC
Davis; Omoyemwen Igbinedion and Tania Riveros, UC San
Diego; and Yimdriuska Magan, UC Davis. It is significant
that students won recognition from a nationally competitive
field of 590 research posters.
California State
Emmanuel Y. Dotsey, B.S. Biological Sciences, 2007, Cal
State LA, was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Graduate Diversity Fellowship which began his second
year of Ph.D. study in molecular pharmacology at UC
Irvine.
Ameer Thompson, (B.S. Biological Sciences, 2005, Sacramento
State) who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Cellular/
Molecular Biology at UC Davis was awarded an NSF Graduate
Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Gabriel Rodriguez (B.S., Earth Systems Science & Policy,
2008, Cal State Monterey Bay) received a Graduate Research
Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
to pursue his Ph.D. degree at UC Santa Barbara in the Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology.
Illinois
Kellen Marshall was accepted into the Leadership Conference
at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The
forum was sponsored by the Conference of Women Legislators
of the Illinois General Assembly and the Institute
of Government and Public Affairs at UIC on June 3 –
June 8, 2008.
Islands of Opportunity
Makani Gregg, University of Hawaii at Hilo, was selected
to do an oral presentation at the 2009 American Society
of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO) Conference in Nice,
France.
Michealene Iaukea-Lum, University of Hawaii, was selected
to participate in NASA’s PIECES 2008-2009 program
(includes a summer internship in 2009) at UH Hilo.
Kentucky-West Virginia (KY-WV)
Kentucky State University students Michael Somuah and
Santhi Chilukuri received a third place award at the 2008
KY-WV LSAMP Student Research Symposium.
Mackendy Alcinvil, a junior information technology major
(Kentucky State University) was named the 2008 GE African
American Forum Scholar.
Sabrina Anderson, a senior computer science major, placed
third for the Mike Shinn NSBE Distinguished Member of
the Year Award. The award is given to student members
who demonstrate high scholastic performance and dedicated
service to the society and other organizations and
possess high professional promise.
Louisiana (LS)
Cacey Stevens, a Southern University LS-LAMP affiliate
and a Timbuktu Academy Scholar, received a 2008 NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship. Ms. Stevens began pursuing
a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago.
Tiffany Brown of Chicago State University was one of 15
undergraduate recipients of the 2008 UNCF•Merck Science
Initiative award. As an UNCF•Merck Fellow, she has
received a full academic scholarship and she will spend her
summers conducting research at Merck Research Laboratories
in Boston, MA. The program is supported through
the Merck Institute for Science Education and Merck Research
Laboratories.
Indiana
Adetayo Adesanya, a sophomore in Electrical and Computer
Engineering Technology at Purdue University, recently
was honored with two awards for his work on a project
with Purdue University assistant professor,
Jeffrey Evans. He won first place
in the undergraduate research poster
competition at the 2007 LSAMP/AGEP
Third Annual Joint Research Conference
held at Indiana University in Bloomington,
IN on November 9-10, 2007. Adesanya
also won first place at the National Society of Black
Engineers conference in Orlando, FL in March 2008.
Left to Right: LSU BD Scholars Fareed Dawan, Marc Peterson,
Dr. James Wyche (Director, HRD, NSF) and scholar Raphyel
Rosby
Grambling State University (GSU), LS-LAMP scholar
Johnte Bass presented research at the 82nd Annual Meeting
of Louisiana Academy of Sciences. Bass, sophomore
physics major, placed second in the poster competition.
In 2007-2008, BD scholar Monica Sylvain from Cohort III
(our first cohort) received a Merck award in the amount of
$200,000 for tuition, fees, research support, etc., for the
remaining few years of her Ph.D. studies in chemistry.
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