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Recent Graduates
Among the student participants in NIGMS' minority programs who received degrees recently are:
- University of Arizona, Tucson: MARC undergraduates Nanibaa Garrison and Jennifer Thompson received bachelor's degrees in molecular and cellular biology in May. Garrison recently entered the Ph.D. program in human genetics at Stanford University in California, and Thompson entered the Ph.D. program in molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
- University of the District of Columbia: MARC undergraduate student Mitaire Ojaruega received a bachelor's degree in physics this past spring and has entered the Ph.D. program in applied physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- CSUDH: Three MBRS program participants received degrees recently. Victor Rico received a bachelor's degree in psychology in May and has entered a Ph.D. program at the University of Texas, Austin; Talia Sojo received a bachelor's degree in psychology in May and has entered a Ph.D. program at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA; and Verticia Rederford received a master's degree in biology this past summer and has entered the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy.
- City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn College: Five MARC undergraduate students received their bachelor's degrees in biology in May. Allyson Bunbury entered the Intramural Research Training Award Program at the National Institute on Aging, NIH; Tamara Edwards entered a post-baccalaureate program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, NY; Ismaele Jacques entered the Ph.D. program in microbiology at Yale University in New Haven, CT; Betty Noel entered the Ph.D. program in microbiology at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook; and Shella Saint Fleur entered the M.D.-Ph.D. program in microbiology at New York University.
- FIU: Three MBRS program participants received degrees recently. Luciana Amado earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry with a minor in visual arts and is now in an M.D.-Ph.D. program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Damaris Ramos earned a bachelor's degree in the biological sciences and is currently performing research at the University of Miami with plans to pursue an M.D.-Ph.D. next fall; and Johanna Rodriguez received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and is now in a graduate program at Yale University. Rodriguez is featured on FIU's Web site at http://news.fiu.edu/releases/2003/06-10_rodriguez.htm. MARC undergraduate student Alian Aguila earned a bachelor's degree in the biological sciences and is currently performing research in a post-baccalaureate program at the National Cancer Institute, NIH.
- SUNY, Purchase College: Three Bridges to the Baccalaureate program participants at Purchase partner school Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY, received degrees in May. Marissa Goberdahn received an associate's degree in biology, and Beverly Leon and Pira Suthirangkul received associate's degrees in environmental science. All three have made the successful transition to Purchase College to pursue their bachelor's degrees. Stacey Czumak received a bachelor's degree in biology and Rita Guimaraes received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Purchase College, and Mahboob Rahman received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. For more on Purchase College's Bridges program, see http://www.ns.purchase.edu/natsci/NIHBridges.htm.
- SDSU: Five MBRS program participants recently completed their degrees. Danielle Augustin received a bachelor's degree in microbiology and has entered a post-baccalaureate program at San Francisco State University; Janet Calderón received a Ph.D. in language and communicative disorders and is performing postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Veronica Casas completed a master's degree in molecular biology and entered the University of California, San Diego/SDSU joint doctoral program this fall; Veronica Ruiz received her bachelor's degree in community health education and is pursuing a master's degree in public health at SDSU; and Brenda Salumbides received a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and is pursuing a doctoral degree in the molecular pathology program at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences' F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, in Bethesda, MD.
- Tougaloo College: MARC undergraduate student Jamekia Holloway received a bachelor's degree in biology in May. She recently entered a postbaccalaureate program in the biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
- University of California, Los Angeles: MARC undergraduate student Erika Bustamante received her bachelor's degree in molecular biology this past spring and began Ph.D. studies in developmental biology at Stanford University this fall. Bustamante's accomplishments are featured on UCLA's Web site at http://www.college.ucla.edu/news/03/bustamante.html.
Dumebi Obidi, a recipient of two NIGMS Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities while attending high school and college, recently received a bachelor's degree in neurobiology and physiology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Obidi plans to go on to medical school.
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