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Conference Program Book Design: Donna Behar, AAAS, EHR Overview of the Conference ...... 6

About ...... 7-9

Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF) ...... 7

Emerging Froners in Research and Innovaon (EFRI-REM) ...... 8

Naonal Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) ...... 8

American Associaon for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ...... 9

Welcome ...... 10-11

Shirley M. Malcom, Iris R. Wagstaff, and Quincy Brown, AAAS

Conference Staff ...... 12

Conference Agenda ...... 13-19

Hotel Floor Plans ...... 20-21

Washington, DC Metro System Map ...... 22

Biographies (Plenary Session Speakers)...... 23-31

Judges ...... 32

Exhibitor Lisng ...... 33

Exhibitor Descripons ...... 34-45

1  Naonal Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) Scholars ;  Research in Disabilies Educaon (RDE); and  Tribal Colleges and Universies Program (TCUP).

The 2019 Emerging Researchers Naonal (ERN) Conference in The objecves of the conference are to help undergraduate and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemacs (STEM) is graduate students to enhance their science communicaon hosted by the American Associaon for the Advancement of skills and to beer understand how to prepare for science Science (AAAS), Educaon and Human Resources Programs careers in a global workforce. Towards this end, the general (EHR) and the Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF) Division of

format for the 2-1/2 day conference includes:

Human Resource Development (HRD), within the Directorate for Educaon and Human Resources (EHR). The conference is aimed  Student poster and oral presentaons. at college and university undergraduate and graduate students who parcipate in programs funded by the NSF HRD Unit, Other conference acvies include workshops focused on: including underrepresented minories and persons with  Strategies for applying for and succeeding in graduate disabilies. programs and finding funding for graduate school;

 Career preparaon for the STEM workforce, including In parcular, the conference seeks to highlight the research of employment searches and retenon; and undergraduate and graduate students who parcipate in the  Understanding STEM careers in a global context and NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) Program idenfying internaonal research and educaon and the following NSF HRD-funded programs: opportunies for undergraduate and graduate students and  Alliance for Graduate Educaon and the Professoriate faculty. (AGEP);  Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology Exhibitors include representaves from academic, government, (CREST); business, and the non-profit sector with informaon about  Emerging Froners in Research and Innovaon (EFRI-REM) graduate school admissions, fellowships, summer research Scholars; opportunies, professional development acvies, and  EntryPoint; employment opportunies.  Historically Black Colleges and Universies Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP); For more informaon, visit the Web site at hp:// www.emerging-researchers.org/.  Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Parcipaon (LSAMP) and LSAMP Bridges to the Doctorate;

1The Naonal Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) is working with AAAS to increase the number of African American and other underrepresented minority physics students who parcipate in the ERN conference.

6 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM prosperity by supporng the broader parcipaon and success of individuals currently underrepresented in STEM and the instuons that serve them.

The Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) serves as a focal point for NSF's agency-wide commitment to enhancing the quality and excellence of STEM educaon and research through broadening parcipaon by historically under- represented groups – minories, women, and persons with disabilies. Priority is placed on investments that promise innovaon and transformave strategies and that focus on creang and tesng models that ensure the full parcipaon of and provide opportunies for the educators, researchers, and instuons dedicated to serving these populaons. Programs within HRD have a strong focus on partnerships and collaboraons in order to maximize the preparaon of a well- trained scienfic and instruconal workforce for the new millennium.

HRD V:

HRD envisions a well-prepared and compeve U.S. workforce of sciensts, technologists, engineers, mathemacians, and educators that reflects the diversity of the U.S. populaon.

HRD M:

HRD's mission is to grow the innovave and compeve U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathemacs (STEM) workforce that is vital for sustaining and advancing the Naon's

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 7 The EFRI process of selecng, announcing, and funding new froner areas will funcon throughout the year, ensuring connual input and feedback from the engineering community on promising future research opportunies. This input comes from such diverse sources as workshops, advisory commiees, technical meengs, professional sociees, proposals and awards, and NSF commiees of visitors. The Office of Emerging Froners in Research and Innovaon (EFRI) has been established as a result of strategic planning and From this comprehensive input, ENG idenfies, evaluates, and reorganizaon of NSF Engineering Directorate (ENG). Movated priorizes those froner topics that best match the EFRI criteria by the vision of ENG to be the global leader in advancing the (transformave, addressing a naonal need or grand challenge, froners of fundamental engineering research, EFRI serves a mul- or inter-disciplinary, an area where the community is crical role in helping ENG focus on important emerging areas in poised to respond, and clearly demonstrang ENG's leadership a mely manner. Each year, EFRI will recommend, priorize, and role). fund interdisciplinary iniaves at the emerging froner of engineering research and educaon. These investments represent transformave opportunies, potenally leading to: new research areas for NSF, ENG, and other agencies; new industries or capabilies that result in a leadership posion for the country; and/or significant progress on a recognized naonal need or grand challenge.

Founded in 1977 at Morgan State University, the mission of the Naonal Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) is to promote the professional well-being of African American physicists and physics students within the internaonal scienfic community and within society at large.

The organizaon seeks to develop and support efforts to increase opportunies for African Americans in physics and to increase their numbers and visibility of their scienfic work. It also seeks to develop acvies and programs that highlight and enhance the benefits of the scienfic contribuons that African American physicists provide for the internaonal community. The society seeks to raise the general knowledge and appreciaon of physics in the African American community.

More informaon about NSBP is located online at hp:// nsbp.org/.

8 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Open to all, AAAS membership includes a subscripon to Science.

The American Associaon for the Advancement of Science is an

Four primary program areas fulfill the AAAS mission: internaonal non-profit organizaon dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader,  Science and Policy spokesperson and professional associaon. In addion to  Internaonal Acvies organizing membership acvies, AAAS publishes the journal  Educaon and Human Resources Science, hp://www.sciencemag.org/, as well as many scienfic  Project 2061 newsleers, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide. AAAS seeks to "advance science, engineering, and innovaon AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 261 affiliated throughout the world for the benefit of all people." To fulfill sociees and academies of science, serving 10 million this mission, the AAAS Board has set these broad goals:

individuals. Science has the largest paid circulaon of any peer-  Enhance communicaon among sciensts, engineers, and reviewed general science journal in the world, with an the public; esmated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS is  Promote and defend the integrity of science and its use; open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve  Strengthen support for the science and technology society" through iniaves in science policy; internaonal enterprise; programs; science educaon; and more. For the latest research  Provide a voice for science on societal issues; news, log onto EurekAlert!, hp://www.eurekalert.org/,  Promote the responsible use of science in public policy; the premier science-news website, a service of AAAS.  Strengthen and diversify the science and technology

workforce;  Foster educaon in science and technology for everyone;  Increase public engagement with science and technology; and  Advance internaonal cooperaon in science.

Visit the AAAS website at hp://www.aaas.org/.

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Dear ERN Conference Participants:

Welcome to the 2019 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technol- ogy, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This is the ninth ERN conference hosted by AAAS, the publisher of the Science family of journals, and supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). We welcome this collaboration with NSF and applaud the Foundation’s continuing commitment to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society and to support strategies to reach underserved populations nationwide.

This year we have more than 1,300 participants from more than 260 institutions. Nearly 70% of the conference participants are undergraduate and graduate student researchers who are supported by the NSF Human Resources Development (HRD) Programs; Research Experienc- es for Undergraduates (REU); the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) Pro- gram; and other federal programs, including the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and USDA.

Plenary sessions will include two panels. One highlights selected ERN alumni who have ex- celled in the STEM world. We will hear from Isa Watson (CEO & Founder, Envested), Kaaba White (Engineer, Naval Sea Systems Command), and Deonnia N. Pompey (PhD Candidate, Uni- versity of Alabama at Birmingham) regarding the impact of the ERN conference on their edu- cational and professional development. The other panel is a TED Talk style session that fea- tures innovations in STEM with panelists Livia Eberlin (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin), Captain Barrington Irving, (Founder, Experience Aviation), and Shaun Kane (Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder).

In other plenary sessions, Ashanti Johnson (Co-Founder, Sportin’ the Grades Nonprofit Or- ganization, President and CEO, Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success Professional Development Institute, and Chief Executive Officer, Cirrus Academy) and Rich- ard Tapia (Mathematician and Professor, Department of Computational and Applied Mathe- matics, Rice University) will discuss their STEM research and education, career paths and outreach activities.

This is the second year that ERN has included the HBCU Making & Innovation Showcase to encourage and support increased participation in STEM-related innovation and entrepreneur- ship activities by students at HBCUs. Sixteen student teams from HBCUs will share innova- tive prototypes using hardware and software that address one of the seventeen sustainable development goals of the United Nations and present their work during the ERN conference to a team of inventors and researchers. We also have several new ERN workshops and sessions focused on: Tech Transfer for Faculty; Beyond the Lab; Effective Science Communication Strategies for the Public; Opportunities in Science Policy - AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships; Leveraging Student Research Experiences to Bridge the Gap for Un- derrepresented Minorities in STEM Careers; The National GEM Consortium Info Session; and Drop-In Presentation Clinics. Finally, this year we will hold the first student orientation session to assist attendees on how to best leverage the ERN conference experience and hone their presentation skills.

We will preview the four winning videos from the fourth ERN Science in a Minute student video competition. The EFRI-REM Networking dinner will feature Ayanna Howard (Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech). Our continuing workshops will include staff and members of the National Society of Black Physicists, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Institute for

10 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Broadening Participation (IBP), and NSF Division of Graduate Education. And for on-site student presenter support, we are once again offering workshops and coaching on present- ing oral and poster presentations.

We appreciate the continued support and efforts of exhibitors at this Conference, many of whom are NSF grantees of the NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) and NSF IN- CLUDES Programs. From our evaluations, we know that many ERN attendees have bene- fited from services and programs provided by the exhibitors.

We are most appreciative of the STEM professionals who serve as role models and mentors and help with the judging of student oral and poster presentations, including alumni of the David and Lucile Packard HBCU Graduate Scholars Program, L’Oréal USA For Women in Science (FWIS) post-doctoral fellowship program, the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows, and the SACNAS Summer Leadership Institute.

We encourage all students to make new contacts, build scientific communications skills, and attend the workshops to build knowledge about graduate school and careers.

As a professional society, AAAS is working to advance science, engineering, and innova- tion throughout the world for the benefit of all people. We encourage all participants to visit aaas.org to find out about our grants and awards, professional development opportuni- ties, and our Force for Science effort. It is our hope that you will expand your STEM work- force knowledge at this Conference.

Sincerely,

Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS Iris R. Wagstaff, Program Director, AAAS Quincy Brown, Program Director, AAAS

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Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director Iris R. Wagstaff, Program Director

Quincy Brown, Program Director Karen Marrongelle, Assistant Director EHR Sylvia M. James, Deputy Assistant Director (Acng) EHR Jermelina Tupas, Division Director (Acng) HRD Jody Chase, Deputy Division Director (Acng) HRD Donna Behar

Bey Calinger Jennifer Carinci Tarrick Clayton Minerva Cordero, ADVANCE, HSI Barbara Goldstein Jessie DeAro, ADVANCE, ECR Janaya Thompson Earnesne Easter, HBCU-UP, ECR

James Hicks, LSAMP Martha James, INCLUDES, LSAMP LeRoy Jones, LSAMP AAAS Programs/Membership Department Mark H. Leddy, ECR, AGEP Nafeesa Owens, EASE Claudia Rankins, HBCU-UP, CAREER, CREST Chrissy Rey Victor Sanago, CREST, HBCU-UP Dawn Smith Marilyn J. Suiter, TCUP, HBCU-UP Regina Sievert, TCUP, CREST Michael Colella

Sohi Rastegar, Director of EFRI Daniel Akins, The City College of New York Louise R.Howe, Program Director Kenneth Boue, Xavier University of Louisiana Garie Fordyce, Program Manager Anissa Buckner, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff Brian Gray, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow Carol Davis, Tribal Naons Research Group Lisa B. Elliot, Naonal Technical Instute for the Deaf at

Rochester Instute of Technology Kelly M. Mack, Associaon of American Colleges and Universies Dana Denick, Associate Program Director Camille A. McKayle, University of the Virgin Islands Larry Max, Norfolk State University Delia Rosales-Valles, New Mexico State University Carmen K. Sidbury, The Sidbury Group, LLC

Jonathan Lambright, Savannah State University

Patrick Dean, Savannah State Unviersity

12 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM ERN Alumni Panel and Q&A

Panel Intrucon: Claudia Rankins, 11:00am - 3:00pm Pre-Conference Packard Scholar Program Director, NSF, EHR Meeng (Invitaon Only) Washington Room 5 Moderator: Kelly Mack, VP, Undergraduate STEM Educaon, 3:00pm - 9:00pm Conference Registraon Opens Associaon of American Colleges and Convenon Registraon and Lobby Universies and Execuve Director, Project Kaleidoscope 1:00pm - 7:00pm Exhibitor Setup Exhibit Hall A Panelists: Deonnia N. Pompey, PhD Candidate, University of Alabama at 4:00pm - 5:45pm Student Orientaon & Presentaon Birmingham Skills Workshop (oponal for early arrivals) Omar Alberto Movil-Cabrera, Washington Room 3 Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic University of 4:00pm - 6:00pm Judges’ Orientaon Puerto Rico Maryland A&B Kaaba White, Engineer, Naval Sea 5:00pm - 6:00pm ADA Resource Room Opens Systems Command Maryland A&B Isa Watson, CEO & Founder, Envested 5:00pm - 6:00pm HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase Orientaon Session ERN Agenda Review and Washington Room 1 nnouncements: Iris Wagstaff, AAAS Program Director, AAAS 6:00pm - 8:00pm Opening Plenary Session 1 and Dinner Marrio Ballroom 8:00pm - 10:00pm Exhibit Hall Opens - Session 1 Exhibit Hall A AAAS Welcome: Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS

Welcome Remarks: Karen Marrongelle, Assistant Director, Directorate for Educaon and Human 7:00am - 6:30pm Registraon Resources (EHR), NSF Convenon Registraon and Lobby

Linda G. Blevins, Deputy Assistant Judges’ Room and ADA Resource Director, Engineering Directorate, NSF Room Opens Maryland A&B Johnathan Holifield, Execuve Director, White House Iniave on HBCUs 7:00am - 7:45am Oral Presentaons Session 1 (Setup) (See handout for room assignments.) Willie Rockward, NSBP President, Chair & Professor, Department of Physics, Poster Presentaons Session 1 Morgan State University (Setup) Exhibit Hall A Quincy Brown, AAAS Program Director, HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase 8:00am - 9:45am Networking Breakfast and Plenary Session 2 Keith Shoates, VP, Office of CEO, Vista Marrio Ballroom Equity Partners

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 13 AAAS Welcome: Social, Behavioral, & Economic Rush Holt, CEO AAAS and Execuve Sciences/Science & Math Educaon Publisher, Science (Undergraduate Students) Park Tower Room 8212 Panel on STEM Innovaons Technology & Engineering Moderator: Sanna Gaspard, Founder (Graduate Students) and CEO, Rubitecon Inc. Virginia B

Panelists: Captain Barrington Irving, Technology & Engineering Founder, Experience Aviaon (Undergraduate Students) Virginia C Livia Eberlin, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of 10:00am - 12:15pm Concurrent Workshops - Session 1 Texas at Ausn A. NSF Graduate Research Shaun Kane, Professor of Computer Fellowship Science, University of Colorado at Maryland C Boulder

Tyrone Mitchell, Program Director, Q&A NSF, EHR

9:45am - 10:00am Break B. Funding Your STEM Educaon:

For Undergraduate & Graduate 10:00am - 12:15pm Poster Presentaons Session 1 Students Exhibit Hall A Marrio Balcony B

Oral Presentaons Session 1 Bernard Batson, Director, Diversity (See handout for room assignments) Programs, University of South Florida

These Include: Sara Hernandez, Associate Dean for Biological Sciences (Graduate Students) Inclusion & Student Engagement, Virginia A Cornell University

Biological Sciences (Undergraduate Yolanda Trevino, Assistant Vice Students) President for Diversity, Equity, & Marrio Balcony A Mulcultural Affairs, Indiana University Chemistry & Chemical Sciences

(Undergraduate Students) C. Physics or Not Physics: Some Park Tower Room 8217 Answers to the Queson

Park Tower Room 8228 Computer Sciences & Informaon Mgt.

(Graduate Students) Naonal Society of Black Physicists Park Tower Room 8219 (NSBP)

Ecology, Environmental, & Earth Paul Gueye, NSBP Past President, Sciences (Undergraduate Students) Professor, Dept. of Physics, Morgan Park Tower Room 8206 State University

Mathemacs & Stascs (Graduate Angelina Gallego, Senior Physics Students) Major, Hampton University

Park Tower Room 8211 Elaine Lalanne, NSBP

Physics (Graduate Students) Stephen Roberson, NSBP Park Tower Room 8216

14 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM D. Biomedical Sciensts (PhD) & AAAS Welcome: Physician Sciensts (MD-PhD) Maureen Kearney, Chief Program Training Programs: Preparing and Officer, AAAS Applying Park Tower Room 8229 Moderator: Claudia Rankins, Program Director, NSF, EHR Associaon of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Speaker: Ashan Johnson, Co- Founder, Sporn’ the Grades Nonprofit Victoria H. Freedman, Associate Dean Organizaon, President and CEO, for Graduate Programs in Biomedical Minories Striving and Pursuing Higher Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Degrees of Success Professional Medicine Development Instute, and Chief Execuve Officer, Cirrus Academy Nancy Schwartz, Dean and Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of Announcements Chicago 1:30pm - 3:30pm HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase Nancy Street, Associate Dean and Faculty and Students ONLY Diversity Inclusion Officer, UT Southwestern Medical Center A. The Ins and Outs of Technology Transfer (Open to all ERN and Maker Michael S. Donnenberg, Professor of Faculty) Internal Medicine and Microbiology and Wilson A&B Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University B. Understanding the Business of Entrepreneurship (Open to all ERN and Roadmap to Becoming a Doctor Maker Students) Park Tower Room 8223 Washington Room 1

Associaon of American Medical 4:00pm - 6:00pm HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase Colleges (AAMC) Faculty & Students ONLY

Rebecca Rice, Director, Business C. Protecng Your Intellectual Operaons, AAMC Property (Maker Students Only) Washington Room 1 F. Drop-In Presentaon Clinic #1 Congressional 1:30pm - 4:00pm Exhibit Hall Opens - Session 2 Exhibit Hall A Irene Hulede, Manager Student Programs, American Society for 1:45pm - 4:00pm Poster Presentaons Session 2 Microbiology (ASM) (Setup) Exhibit Hall A Maiysha Jones, Senior Scienst, Proctor and Gamble Company Oral Presentaons Session 2 (Setup) (See handout for room assignments.) G. Transferring Student Innovaon Mindsets to Industry Success - Faculty 4:00pm - 6:30pm Poster Presentaons Session 2 & Students ONLY Exhibit Hall A

Washington Room 1 Oral Presentaons Session 2 12:15pm - 1:30pm Plenary Session 3 and Lunch (See handout for room assignments.) Marrio Ballroom These Include: Biological Sciences (Graduate Students) Virginia A

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 15 Biological Sciences(Undergraduate Maiysha Jones, Senior Scienst, Proctor Students) and Gamble Company Marrio Balcony A 4:00pm - 4:15pm E. EFRI-REM Networking Session 1 Chemistry & Chemical Sciences (Invitaon Only) (Graduate Students) Washington Room 4 Park Tower Room 8209 Welcome: Sohi Rastegar, Senior Advisor Computer Sciences & Informaon Mgt. & Office Head, Office Of Emerging (Undergraduate Students) Froners & Muldisciplinary Acvies Park Tower Room 8219 (EFMA), Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Ecology, Environmental, & Earth Sciences (Graduate Students) 4:15pm - 5:15pm EFRI-REM Mentees Session Park Tower Room 8206 Washington Room 4

Nanoscience (Graduate Students) 1st Seminar Talk

Park Tower Room 8216 Moderator: Brian Gray, AAAS Science

& Technology Policy Fellow Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences

(Graduate Students) Speaker: Kolby Keo, Special Assistant Park Tower Room 8212 to the Execuve Director, University of

California Washington Center Technology & Engineering (Graduate

Students) 5:15pm - 6:15pm STEM Career Panel Virginia B Washington Room 4

Technology & Engineering Moderator: Brian Gray, AAAS Science Undergraduate Students) & Technology Policy Fellow

Virginia C

Panelists: Keshia Ashe, AAAS Science & 4:00pm - 6:30pm Concurrent Workshops Session 2 Technology Policy Fellow

Priscilla Wang, So ware Engineering A. Funding Your STEM Educaon: For Analyst, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Undergraduate & Graduate Students

Park Tower Room 8228 Rocio Chavela, Director, Educaon and Career Development, ASEE

Bernard Batson, Director, Diversity William Redmond, Systems Engineer, Programs, University of South Florida U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

Sara Hernandez, Associate Dean for Deidra Walls, Engineer, Northrop Inclusion & Student Engagement, Cornell Grumman University

4:15pm - 6:15pm F. EFRI-REM Mentor Session 2 Yolanda Trevino, Assistant Vice President (Invitaon Only) for Diversity, Equity, & Mulcultural Wilson A&B

Affairs, Indiana University

Tuere Bowles, Associate Professor in the B. Job Strategies: Wring an Interview- Department of Leadership, Policy, Adult Winning CV/Resume & Higher Educaon, North Carolina State Washington Room 3 University

Chrisne Grant, Associate Dean of Irene Hulede, Manager, Student Faculty Advancement, College of Programs, American Society for Engineering, North Carolina State Microbiology (ASM) University

16 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Andrew Greenberg, Disnguished 9:00am - 11:00am ADA Resource Room Opens Faculty Associate in the College of Maryland A&B Engineering, University of Wisconsin- Madison 8:00am - 10:30am Poster Presentaons Session 3 Exhibit Hall A 6:15pm - 7:00pm EFRI-REM Mentees Session Washington Room 4 Oral Presentaons Session 3 (See handout for room assignments.) 2nd Seminar Talk

These include: Moderators: Garie Fordyce and Brian Biological Sciences (Graduate Students) Gray, NSF Marrio Balcony B

6:30pm Dinner on Your Own Biological Sciences (Undergraduate

Students) 7:00pm - 9:00pm Invitaon-Only Networking Sessions Marrio Balcony A

EFRI-REM Dinner Networking Session Computer Sciences & Informaon Mgt. Marrio Salon 1 (Undergraduate Students)

Park Tower Room 8219 Welcome and Moderator: Sohi

Rastegar, NSF ENG EFMA/EFRI Nanoscience (Undergraduate Students)

Park Tower Room 8216 Speaker: Ayanna Howard, Linda J. and

Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair of Technology & Engineering (Graduate the School of Interacve Compung, Students) Georgia Tech irginia A

7:00pm - 9:00pm Students with Disabilies Networking Technology & Engineering Dinner (Undergraduate Students) Virginia A Park Tower Room 8223

7:00pm - 9:00pm Naonal Society of Black Physicists 8:30am - 10:30am Concurrent Workshop - Session 3 Networking Dinner

Marrio Salon 3 A. Drop-In Presentaon Clinic #2 Park Tower Room 8228

Irene Hulede, Manager Student Programs, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 7:00 am Breakfast on Your Own Maiysha Jones, Senior Scienst, Proctor 7:00am - 2:00pm Registraon and Gamble Company Convenon Registraon and Lobby 9:00am - 10:30am B. Biomedical Sciensts (PhD) & 7:30am - 5:30pm Judges’ Room Opens Physician Sciensts (MD-PhD) Training Maryland A&B Programs: Personal Statement and the Interview 7:30am - 8:00am Poster Presentaons Sessions 3 and 4 Park Tower Room 8206 (Setup) Exhibit Hall A Associaon of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Oral Presentaons Sessions 3 and 4 (Setup) Victoria H. Freedman, Associate Dean (See handout for room assignments.) for Graduate Programs in Biomedical Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 17 Nancy Schwartz, Dean and Director of Science & Math Educaon (Graduate Postgraduate Studies, University of Students Chicago Park Tower Room 8212

Nancy Street, Associate Dean and 11:00am - 12:30pm Concurrent Workshop - Session 4 Diversity Inclusion Officer, UT Southwestern Medical Center A. Beyond the Lab: Effecve Science Communicaon Strategies for the Mary-Claire Roghmann, Director Public Medical Scienst Training Program, Park Tower Room 8229 University of Maryland School of Medicine Chloe Poston, Associate Director, The Leadership Alliance 8:00am - 9:30am HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase Session (Invitaon Only) B. Opportunies in Science Policy: Washington Room 1 AAAS Science and Technology Policy

Fellowships

Showcase Setup (Invitaon Only) Park Tower Room 8219 Washington Room 1 Jessica Soule, Project Director, 9:30am - 10:30am HBCU Making & Innovaon Showcase Recruitment, Markeng & Alumni Washington Room 1 Engagement, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships 9:00am - 12:30pm E xhibit Hall Opens - Session 3 Exhibit Hall A C. Leveraging Student Research Experiences to Bridge the Gap for 11:00am - 12:30pm Poster Presentaons Session 4 Underrepresented Minories in STEM Exhibit Hall A Careers Park Tower Room 8223 Oral Presentaons Session 4 (See handout for room assignments.) Irene Aninye, Senior Program Associate, Research Compeveness Program, These include: AAAS Biological Sciences (Graduate Students) Marrio Balcony B 11:00am – 1:00pm D. The Naonal GEM Consorum Info Session Biological Sciences (Undergraduate Maryland C Students) Marrio Balcony A Howard Adams, Founder, H.G. Adams and Associates, Inc. Chemistry & Chemical Sciences (Undergraduate Students) Marcus Huggans, Execuve Director of Park Tower Room 8217 Client Relaons, GEM

Ecology, Environmental, & Earth Renea Tull, Assoc. Vice Provost for Sciences (Undergraduate Students) Strategic Iniaves at the University of Park Tower Room 8206 Maryland, Balmore County (UMBC), and Professor of the Pracce in UMBC’s Mathemacs & Stascs College of Engineering & Informaon (Undergraduate Students) Technology (Humanitarian Engineering) Park Tower Room 8211 E. EFRI-REM Poster Session Physics (Undergraduate Students) Washington Rooms 4 & 5 Park Tower Room 8216 11:00am - 11:30am EFRI-REM Poster Room Setup Washington Rooms 4 & 5

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11:30am - 1:00pm EFRI-REM Poster Judging Moderator: Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Washington Rooms 4 & 5 Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS Moderator: Brian Gray, NSF ENG EFMA/EFRI Speaker and Q&A:

Richard Tapia, Mathemacian and 12:30pm Exhibits Close Professor, Department of Exhibit Hall A Computaonal and Applied

Mathemacs, Rice University 12:30pm Lunch On Your Own

Recognion of David and Lucile 12:30pm - 2:30pm EFRI-REM Lunch (Invitaon Only)

Packard HBCU Scholars:

Washington Rooms 4 & 5 James Sth, Vice President Emeritus, 1:00pm - 1:45pm SWOT Session for EFRI-REM Mentees American Instute of Physics (AIP) (Invitaon Only) Virginia C Recognion of the AAAS Policy Fellows, SACNAS Leadership Instute Sohi Rastegar, NSF ENG EMFA/EFRI Alumni, and the L’Oreal USA for

Women in Science (FWIS) Fellows:

Brian Gray, NSF ENG EFMA/EFRI

Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and 1:00pm - 1:45pm SWOT Session for EFRI-REM Mentors Director of SEA Change, AAAS (Invitaon Only) Virginia B Presentaon of EFRI-REM Poster Awards:

Moderators: Sohi Rastegar, NSF ENG

Sohi Rastegar, Director of EFMA/EFRI, EFMA/EFRI NSF

Dana Denick, Associate Program Presentaon of the HBCU Making & Director, EEC, NSF

Innovaon Showcase Awards:

Garie Fordyce, Program Manager,

Quincy Brown, Program Director, AAAS EFMA

Presentaon of the ERN Video 1:45pm - 3:00pm EFRI-REM Mentee Interviews Compeon Awards:

Virginia C

Tarrick Clayton, Program Associate, EFRI-REM Mentor Interviews AAAS Virginia B Presentaon of Oral and Poster Awards: 12:30pm - 3:30pm Judges Meeng and Lunch

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2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 21 22 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM exploring the ways in which young children use touch and gesture interacons with mobile devices, first responders' use of mobile devices during emergency evacuaons, and modeling inquiry behaviors on mobile devices. Linda G. Blevins joined the Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF) as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Engineering Directorate in December 2017. For the decade prior to joining NSF, she was a Senior Technical Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Director for Livia Schiavinato Eberlin was born and Science Programs in the Department of Energy’s Office of raised in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Her Science, where she provided technical and policy advice on all passion for mass spectrometry started as aspects of science funding program management. Blevins an undergraduate student. During her previously served as an NSF program director; as a Senior sophomore year at the State University of Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia Naonal Labs; and as a Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, she started research in mass Naonal Instutes of Standards and Technology research staff spectrometry in the Thomson Laboratory. That same year, she member. Her research experse is in combuson. She received visited the Aston Laboratory at Purdue University and connued a Ph.D. from Purdue, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. from on as an undergraduate research assistant during subsequent Alabama, all in mechanical engineering. summers. In 2007, she received her B.S. in Chemistry from UNICAMP. In 2008, she entered the PhD program in Analycal Chemistry at Purdue University under the mentorship of Professor R. Graham Cooks. During her PhD, Eberlin developed and applied ambient ionizaon mass spectrometry imaging to human cancer diagnosis and surgical margin evaluaon. In Quincy Brown is a Program Director for recognion of her innovave PhD work, Eberlin received several STEM Educaon Research at the American awards including the Nobel Laureate Signature Award from the Associaon for the Advancement of American Chemical Society. In 2012, she started her Science (AAAS). Her project porolio postdoctoral work at Stanford University under the guidance of includes the Robert Noyce Teacher Professor Richard N. Zare, where she connued to develop mass Scholarship Program and invesgang innovaons in Preservice spectrometry technology for biomedical research. During that STEM teacher educaon, invesgang STEM mentoring period, she received the L’Oréal for Women in Science pracces, supporng the AAAS Emerging Researchers Naonal Fellowship, a K99 pathway to independence award from the Conference, and invesgang making and innovaon on HBCU NIH/NCI, and was part of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Science campuses. and Healthcare.

She was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House In 2016, Eberlin officially started her independent career as an Office of Science and Technology Policy. There, her porolio Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at the included Agricultural Entrepreneurship, STEM Educaon, and University of Texas at Ausn. She has since formed a group with the My Brother's Keeper STEM+Entrepreneurship 11 graduate students, several undergraduate research assistant, iniaves. She is a co-founder of NaonOfMakers.org and and a research associate. Her research group is focused on blackcomputeHER.org. She spent two years as AAAS Science & developing innovave mass spectrometry technologies to Technology Policy Fellow at the Naonal Science Foundaon in address crical problems in health-related research. Within the the CISE Directorate. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science last 3 years, her group has published 12 arcles and received from Drexel University. She was a recipient of the Compung several research grants. As a professor, Eberlin has received the Community Consorum (CCC) CI Fellows Postdoctoral Research 2017 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Fellowship award and was a Naonal Science Foundaon GK-12 Sciences, and was recently named a 2018 Sloan Research and Bridge to the Doctorate Fellow. Fellow, 2018 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2018 Moore Inventor Fellow. Brown was also a Professor of Computer Science at Bowie State University. Her research interests included Mobile HCI, CS Educaon, and Broadening Parcipaon in Compung. In 2011, she founded Girls Who Will, a summer program for middle and high school girls. Through her research she sought to idenfy methods of facilitang human interacon with advanced technologies to support learning. Her projects included

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 23 related to college and university recruitment and retenon and women leadership in STEM.

Sanna Gaspard earned her bachelor’s She serves or has served as principal invesgator (PI) or co-PI on degree in biomedical engineering (BME) at several NSF grants, including Vision and Change in the University of Miami in 2004. Sanna went Undergraduate Biology Educaon; Naonal Science Educaon on to complete her Master’s a year later and Digital Library Biological Sciences Pathways; Historically Black PhD in BME at Carnegie Mellon University by Colleges and Universies-Undergraduate Programs; Robert 2011. While earning her graduate degree she received separate Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program; Transforming patents for her invenon of two medical technologies: an infant Undergraduate Educaon in STEM (TUES) and Virtual Faculty therapy device to support preterm infants’ health and an opcal Workshop; and Women’s Internaonal Research Collaboraons device for early bedsore detecon. To support the at Minority Serving Instuons. In addion, George is the lead commercializaon of these two technologies she founded the AAAS staff person for the L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in medical device companies of TLneoCare, LLC and Rubitecon Science Program (postdoctoral fellowships) and the David and Inc. As CEO and founder of both startups she developed the Lucile Packard Foundaon HBCU Graduate Scholars Program vision, business strategy and IP strategy, business plans, and (graduate school fellowships). raised inial financing for her companies. Gaspard has received recognion and awards for her accomplishments in engineering and entrepreneurship, including: the Digital Health MedMo compeon 2019, finalist for Merck Displaying Futures Award , AAAS-Lemelson Invenon Ambassador, the UpPrize Compeon, Medical Capital Innovaon Compeon, winner for the regional Alpha Lab Gear Hardware Cup, Naonal Appointed Execuve Director in October Associaon of Corporate Directors Shark Tank, 2nd place winner 2017, Holifield is a recognized expert in at the HitLab Healthcare Challenge, 3 Rivers Investment Venture economic and educaon inclusion and Fair’s Technology showcase, and IEEE New Face of Engineering. compeveness, focusing on public- She has a passion for science, technology, invenng, medical private partnerships and community system-building. Prior to devices, entrepreneurship, and encouraging students to get into his appointment, he co-founded ScaleUp Partners and authored STEM fields. She looks forward to applying her knowledge as a The Future Economy and Inclusive Compeveness: How scienst and entrepreneur on a corporate board to support long Demographic Trends and Innovaon Can Create Economic term vision, strategy implementaon, and company growth or Prosperity for All Americans. Holifield’s interdisciplinary career as a project consultant. includes serving as founding Vice President of Inclusive Compeveness at NorTech, a leading regional innovaon cluster and compeveness organizaon, where he authored the Ohio Department of Higher Educaon statewide report, Inclusive Compeveness: Empowering Underrepresented Yolanda Sco George is Deputy Director Ohioans to Compete in the Innovaon Economy, and serving on and Program Director, Educaon and the Northeast Ohio Council of Regional Economic Policy Human Resources Programs, American Advisors. He was founding Vice President of New Economy Associaon for the Advancement of Enterprise at the Cincinna USA Chamber of Commerce and Science (AAAS). She has served as Director founding Execuve Director of CincyTech, a market-leading of Development, Associaon of Science- venture development organizaon. He has also held chief Technology Centers (ASTC), Washington, DC; Director, execuve posions with the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Professional Development Program, University of California, and Cleveland Urban League. Berkeley; and as a research biologist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory involved in cancer research and cell cycle studies Holifield earned his B.A. from West Virginia University where he using flow cytometer and cell sorters. captained the football team and later played for the Cincinna Bengals. He went on to receive his J.D. and M.Ed. from the George has conducted evaluaons, workshops and reviews for University of Cincinna and a professional cerficate from the Naonal Instutes of Health and Naonal Science University of Oklahoma Economic Development Instute. Foundaon (NSF), as well as for private foundaon and public agencies, including the European Commission. She works with UNIFEM, UNESCO, L’Oreal USA and Paris and non-governmental organizaons on gender, science, and technology iniaves

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Rush D. Holt, Ph.D., became the 18th chief Captain Barrington Irving has traveled to 50 execuve officer of the American Associa- countries, conducted more than 30 STEM on for the Advancement of Science expedions, and successfully challenged (AAAS) and execuve publisher of the middle school students to build a car faster Science family of journals in February than a Ferrari 430 and high schoolers to 2015. In this role, Holt leads the world's build a plane he then flew on its test flight. largest mul-disciplinary scienfic and engineering society. Over In 2007, he set two world records—at age 23—as the youngest his career, Holt has held posions as a teacher, scienst, admin- person and first Black pilot to fly solo around the world. He has istrator, and policymaker. From 1987 to 1998, Holt was assistant a passion to explore, inspire, and educate others. Now at 35, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a Barrington is sll an explorer that invesgates real world STEM Department of Energy naonal lab, which is the largest research problems across the globe. Established by Captain Irving in facility of Princeton University and one of the largest alternave 2014, the Flying Classroom is a K-8 STEM+ digital curriculum that energy research facilies in the country. Holt then served for 16 challenges students to design innovave soluons to problems years as a member of the U.S. House of Representaves, repre- he invesgates. Before founding the Flying Classroom, senng New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. Holt is a Phi Barrington created a nonprofit, Experience Aviaon, which Beta Kappa graduate of Carleton College and holds M.A. and offers hands-on, STEM-based programs and career guidance to Ph.D. degrees in physics from New York University. middle and high school students in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and counng.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and brought up in inner-city Miami, Barrington was inspired to pursue aviaon at age 15, when a Jamaican airline pilot offered to mentor him. Rejecng college football scholarships, he pursued a career in STEM and never Ayanna Howard, Ph.D. is the Linda J. and looked back. A magna cum laude graduate of Florida Memorial Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair of the University, Barrington was the recipient of a Congressional School of Interacve Compung in the Resoluon acknowledging his pioneering work in aviaon College of Compung at the Georgia educaon. He received the Guinness World Record as the Instute of Technology. She also holds a faculty appointment in youngest person to fly solo around the world and was named a the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Howard’s Naonal Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012. career focus is on intelligent technologies that must adapt to and funcon within a human-centered world. Her work, which encompasses advancements in arficial intelligence (AI), assisve technologies, and robocs, has resulted in over 250 peer-reviewed publicaons in several projects - from healthcare robots in the home to AI-powered STEM apps for children with diverse learning needs. Howard received her B.S. in Engineering from Brown University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. To date, her unique accomplishments have been highlighted through a number of awards and arcles, including highlights in Ashan Johnson is an internaonally recognized expert and USA Today, Upscale, and TIME Magazine, as well as being speaker on STEM professional development, diversity and recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in women in STEM topics. In her interview “Women Exploring the world by Business Insider. In 2013, she also founded Oceans”, Johnson reveals how she inially became interested in Zyrobocs, which is currently licensing technology derived from the oceans by watching Jacques Cousteau and how that interest her research and has released their first suite of STEM was strengthened a er interacng with a female marine biology educaonal products to engage children of all abilies. Prior to graduate student who spent a day with Ashan, then a fi h Georgia Tech, Howard was a senior robocs researcher at grader, discussing the oceans. Johnson, received her Ph.D. in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has also served as the 1999 in Oceanography from Texas A&M University and Associate Director of Research for the Instute for Robocs and throughout her college and professional career has frequently Intelligent Machines, Chair of the Robocs Ph.D. program, and shared her interest in the oceans with children, teachers, the Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the School of community leaders, college students and federal government Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. officials. In addion to serving as an aquac scienst and

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 25 conducng research as a university faculty member in Georgia, Department of Informaon Science at the University of Florida and Texas, Johnson has gained over 15 years of senior Colorado, Boulder. His research has been supported by an Alfred leadership experience in universies, non-profit and K-12 P. Sloan Fellowship, a Naonal Science Foundaon CAREER organizaons, including: serving as an Assistant Vice Provost at Award, and a DO-IT Trailblazer Award. the University of Texas at Arlington, Execuve Director of the Instute for Broadening Parcipaon, CEO of STEM Human Resource Development Inc, Execuve Director of the Minories Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success (MS PHDs) Professional Development and Mentoring Instute and the CEO/ Maureen Kearney, AAAS Chief Program Superintendent of Cirrus Academy, a state-wide STEAM Officer, joined AAAS in February (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathemacs) 2018. Kearney brings an extensive mix of charter school system in Georgia. Her honors include a US academic, management and public Presidenal Award for Excellence in Science Mathemacs and engagement experience to AAAS. Prior to Engineering Mentoring by President Obama at the White House joining AAAS, she served as Associate and the presgious American Geophysical Union Excellence in Director for Science at the Smithsonian Instuon’s Naonal Geophysical Educaon and Ambassador Awards. Museum of Natural History. Before that, she served as Program Director and Acng Division Director in the Division of Johnson has been profiled in Wikipedia, several STEM textbooks Environmental Biology at the Naonal Science Foundaon. and various other publicaons and has served as a speaker in Previously, she worked as a research curator at the Field Cambodia, Brazil, Spain, China, Mexico, and several US Museum of Natural History and a member of the Commiee of government agencies, universies, internaonal conferences Evoluonary Biology at the University of Chicago. She received and K-12 organizaons. In 2016, Black Enterprise Magazine her PhD in Biological Sciences, with a research focus on described her as one of “10 Black Women Changing the World phylogenecs, evoluon and biodiversity science from George via Science and Technology” and Fox News Channel’s Washington University. As the Chief Program Officer at internaonal Fox & Friends show featured her during its 2016 AAAS, Kearney oversees programs such as Science and Black History Month series. In the February 2018 Black History Technology Fellowships; Scienfic Responsibility, Human Rights Month issue of Essence Magazine, Johnson is recognized as & Law; Science Diplomacy; STEM Educaon; and Dialogue on being one of “STEM’s New Guard” in an arcle highlighng “15 Science, Ethics and Religion. Women who are Paving the Way and Paying it Forward.”

Shaun Kane is an Associate Professor in the Jonathan Lambright is Full Professor and Department of Computer Science at the former Dean of the Colleges of Sciences University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. He and Technology at Savannah State directs the CU Superhuman Compung Lab, University. He has also served as interim which invesgates how to design compung Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chair of the technology that empowers people of all abilies. Kane's prior Engineering Technology and Mathemacs Department at projects include developing new interacon techniques to make Savannah State. touch screen devices more accessible to blind and visually impaired people, new programming tools for creang accessible Lambright received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from audio games, intelligent communicaon assistants for people North Carolina A&T in 1985. A er working for 3 years as a with aphasia, and new touch screen devices opmized for mechanical engineer at the Department of Defense, he returned people who use power wheelchairs. He is the co-developer of to graduate school at North Carolina A&T and received his M.S. Ability-Based Design, a design framework that supports in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 with a focus in Computer designers in developing intelligent systems that can adapt to the Aided Design and Manufacturing. He then aended Georgia abilies of their users, rather than requiring users to adapt to Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering the system. and received his Ph.D. in 1996. While at Georgia Tech his studies focused on design methodology and manufacturing Receiving his Ph.D. from The Informaon School at the automaon. During the period between 1992 and 1996, University of Washington in 2011, he served as faculty at the Jonathan worked for the Lockheed Marn Aeronaucal Systems University of Maryland Balmore County from 2011 to 2014. Co. in Mariea, GA. At Lockheed, he worked on various research Kane is, by courtesy, faculty in the ATLAS Instute and the and development projects within the Advanced Design

26 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Department. The research projects at Lockheed consisted of Computer-Assisted Manufacturing Tools, Design Tools using Knowledge-Based Systems and Advance Database applicaons. Between 1996 and 2002, he consulted with Fortune 500 and Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and other companies in areas of Enterprise Applicaons including Director of SEA Change at AAAS, has Manufacturing Execuon Systems and Customer Relaon served as a program officer in the NSF Management Systems. Science Education Directorate; an assistant professor of biology, University of North In 2006, he received the Savannah State University NROTC Carolina, Wilmington; and a high school teacher of the year award and the NSF HBCU-UP Mentor Award. science teacher. Malcom received her PhD in Ecology from the In 2008, he was selected as a Summer Faculty Fellow at NASA Pennsylvania State University; Master's in Zoology from the Stennis Space Center. During the 2010-11 academic year, University of California, Los Angeles; and Bachelor's with Lambright parcipated in and became a graduate of the distinction in Zoology from the University of Washington. In University System of Georgia’s Execuve Leadership Instute. addition, she holds 17 honorary degrees. He has taught courses for the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program at Savannah State and has been involved in Malcom serves on several boards, including the Heinz engineering educaon research targeted at increasing the Endowments, Public Agenda, Digital Promise, and the Naonal numbers of minority students majoring and graduang from Mathemacs and Science Iniave. She serves as a trustee of engineering disciplines. Caltech and as a Regent of Morgan State University. In 2003, Malcom received the Public Welfare Medal of the Naonal Academy of Sciences, the highest award given by the Academy. She was a member of the Naonal Science Board, the policy- making body of NSF, from 1994 to 1998, and of the President's Commiee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001.

Kelly Mack is the Vice President for Undergraduate STEM Educaon and Execuve Director of Project Kaleidoscope at the Associaon of American Colleges and Universies Karen Marrongelle is the Assistant (AAC&U). Prior to joining AAC&U, Mack was the Senior Program Director of the Naonal Science Director for the Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF) ADVANCE Foundaon (NSF) for Educaon and Program while on loan from the University of Maryland Eastern Human Resources (EHR). She leads the Shore (UMES) where, as a Professor of Biology, she taught EHR directorate in supporng research courses in Physiology and Endocrinology for 17 years. that enhances learning and teaching to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and Mack earned the BS degree in Biology from UMES and, later, the mathemacs (STEM) educaon. Prior to joining NSF, PhD degree from Howard University in Physiology. She has had Marrongelle was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences extensive training and experience in the area of cancer research at Portland State University and Professor of Mathemacs and with her research efforts focusing primarily on the use of novel Stascs, where she oversaw 24 departments and programs antumor agents in breast tumor cells. Most recently, her across the humanies, social sciences and natural sciences. research focus has involved the use of bioflavonoids in the regulaon of estrogen receptor posive (ER+) and estrogen In addion to her work as dean, Marrongelle has served as a receptor negave (ER-) breast tumor cell proliferaon. She has faculty member in the Department of Mathemacs and served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Naonal Stascs at Portland State University since 2001. Prior to her Council on Undergraduate Research and is a current member of appointment as dean, she held posions as the Vice Chancellor the Naonal Instutes of Health Review Subcommiee for for Academic Strategies and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Training, Workforce Development and Diversity. She also Academic Standards and Collaboraon with the Oregon recently completed a brief snt as Execuve Secretary for the University System. From 2007-2009, Marrongelle served on a NSF Commiee on Equal Opportunies in Science and rotaon as a program officer at NSF and led numerous grants, Engineering, which is the Congressionally mandated advisory collaborang with researchers naonally and internaonally to body that focuses on efforts to broaden the parcipaon of improve undergraduate mathemacs educaon and K-12 underrepresented groups in the STEM disciplines. mathemacs professional development.

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 27 Marrongelle has a bachelor's degree in mathemacs and Through Pompey’s passion for nutrion and fitness she hopes to philosophy from Albright College, a master's degree in one day be a part of studies that use food and holisc wellness mathemacs from Lehigh University and a doctorate in strategies to treat chronic illness as well as instrucng and mathemacs educaon from the University of New Hampshire. mentoring students as a professor.

Claudia Rankins is a Program Officer in the Directorate for Educaon and Human Omar Alberto Movil-Cabrera is an Resources at the Naonal Science Associate Professor in Chemical Foundaon, where she manages the Engineering at the Polytechnic University Historically Black Colleges and Univer- of Puerto Rico (PUPR). He received his sies Undergraduate Program and the doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology. Rico-Mayaguez, and his bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from Prior to this post, Rankins served at Hampton University for 22 Universidad del Atlánco in Colombia. years in a number of capacies, including Chair of the Department of Physics, Assistant Dean for Research, and dean Prior to joining PUPR as an Assistant Professor in 2016, Movil of the School of Science. Rankins holds a PhD in Physics from was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Ohio University. Hampton University. She is the co-founder of the Society of Prior to graduate school, Movil worked as a quality auditor and STEM Women of Color, Inc. technical support engineer in the food industry for 6 years. Movil's main research interests include the fabricaon and characterizaon of nanostructured electrodes and polymer electrolyte membranes for applicaons in fuel cells, supercapacitors and biosensors. In addion, his teaching interests include engineering materials, thermodynamics and mass transfer operaons. Movil serves as a mentor for the PUPR -AICHE student chapter and PUPR chem-E-car team. As a PhD Sohi Rastegar is Senior Advisor and the student, Movil aended the Emerging Researcher Naonal Head of the Office of Emerging Froners (ERN) conference in 2011 where he won first place in the and Muldisciplinary Acvies (EFMA) at category of technology and engineering. Movil is also an the Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF), Directorate for alumnus of the CREST-UPRM program supported by the Engineering. He joined NSF in November 2003 following fi een Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF). years of academic and administrave service at Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He has been an Invited Professor at the Swiss Instute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He earned his B.S. (Highest Honors) and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the Deonnia N. Pompey is a second-year University of Texas at Ausn. Rastegar has over 150 scienfic master’s student in the Biostascs publicaons and presentaons and has trained 8 Ph.D. and 14 program at the University of Alabama at M.S. students. He is a co-founder of BioTex, Inc., a medical Birmingham (UAB) with the intenon of device company in Houston, Texas. He is a Fellow of the pursuing a PhD. Pompey obtained her American Instute for Medical and Biological Engineering associate, bachelor, and master’s degree in mathemacs, (AIMBE), a Fellow of the American Society for Lasers in Medicine beginning at Lawson State Community College and compleng and Surgery (ASLMS), has served as the Chair of Bioengineering at UAB. Upon the compleon of her master’s degree she Division of ASME, Associate Editor of Annals of Biomedical became an adjunct Mathemacs instructor at Samford Engineering, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journals of University, Birmingham Southern College, Jefferson State Biomedical Opcs and Journal of Diabetes Science and Community College, and Lawson State Community College. Technology. Rastegar is the recipient of awards and honors A er teaching for three years, she yearned to find a way to use including the Select Young Faculty Award from the Texas math to beer her community and the world around her. This Engineering Experiment Staon, and the Director’s Superior lead her to the School of Public Health. Desiring a higher Accomplishment Award from the Naonal Science Foundaon. educaon degree that could merge her passion for mathemacs and helping others, the Biostascs program was the perfect fit.

28 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM with NVCC to define curriculum and programs to develop an enduring pipeline of qualified IT professionals to meet the needs of IT companies within the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. He is the founding director and President of A View From Grace Foundaon, which is dedicated to improving financial literacy, with an emphasis on connuous educaon, Willie Rockward is the President-Elect of personal financial planning, debt reducon, and 529 College the Naonal Society of Black Physicists. Savings Plans for individuals and families. He received a B.S. degree in Physics, cum laude, from Grambling State University. While compleng a M.S. degree in Physics from State University of New York at Albany, he transferred into the doctoral program in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. A er compleng his doctoral studies, he served as a civilian Research Physicist for the Advanced James H. Sth is Vice President Emeritus Guidance Division of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for the American Instute of Physics located at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. (AIP). An officer of the Instute, he has oversight responsibilies for AIP’s Currently, Rockward is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Magazine Division, the Media and Research Director of the Micro/Nano Opcs Research and Government Relaons Division, the Educaon Division, the Engineering (MORE) Laboratory at Morehouse College. His Center for the History of Physics, the Stascal Research Center current research interests include crossed phase opcs, micro/ and the Careers Division. Throughout his career, James has been nano opcs fabricaon, opcal quadrature microscopy, extreme an advocate for programs that ensure ethnic and gender ultraviolet lithography, terahertz imaging, nanostructure diversity in the sciences. Earning his doctorate in Physics from characterizaon, and termite behavior. Pennsylvania State University, he received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in physics from Virginia State University. An He is a member of the American Associaon of Physics internaonally known physics educaon researcher, his primary Teachers, the Society of Physics Students (naonal officer), the interests are in Program Evaluaon and Teacher Preparaon Naonal Technical Associaon, the Opcal Society of America and Enhancement. He was a Professor of Physics at The Ohio and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He also volunteers as the State University and Professor of Physics at the United States Director of Science and the Coordinator of Special Projects for Military Academy. A rered Colonel, Sth was the first African the Miller’s Preparatory Academy for Boys. American to earn tenure at West Point.

Sth is a past President of the American Associaon of Physics Teachers (first African American), past President of the Naonal Society of Black Physicists, a Fellow of the American Associaon Keith Shoates joined Vista Equity Partners in 2018. Shoates is for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American responsible for integrang strategic planning, operaons, Physical Society, A Fellow of the American Associaon of Physics corporate communicaons, and corporate iniaves in support Teachers, and a Chartered Fellow of the Naonal Society of of the firm’s Chairman and Chief Execuve Officer, Robert F. Black Physicists. Sth was named a Disnguished Alumni of The Smith. Pennsylvania State University, an Honorary Member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society (its highest award) and a Prior to joining Vista, Shoates worked as a Director at Integrity Naonal Academies Educaon Mentor in the Life Sciences. He Applicaons Incorporated (IAI), where he built the firm’s was recognized by Science Spectrum Magazine as one of the 50 porolio in Northern Virginia. His primary focus was delivery of Most Important Blacks in Research Science and was named a enterprise informaon technology soluons for federal agencies ScienceMaker, a MilitaryMaker and an EducaonMaker by of the United States government, with an emphasis on the HistoryMakers. In 2018, Sth was presented with the Albert Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Before Nelson Marquis Lifeme Achievement Award by Marquis joining IAI, Shoates served 24 years in the United States Air “Who’s Who”. Addionally, he serves on several naonal and Force as an acquision and project management specialist for internaonal advisory boards and has been awarded a Doctor of informaon technology, satellite, communicaons, and Humane Leers by his alma mater, Virginia State University. His command and control systems before rering in 2011 at the military awards include the Legion of Merit Medal, Meritorious rank of colonel. Shoates is a member of the Informaon Service Medal, Army Commendaon Medal W/Oak Leaf Cluster Technology (IT) Advisory Commiee for the Northern Virginia and the Air Force Commendaon Medal. Community College (NVCC). Composed of senior representaves of IT companies, this commiee collaborates

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 29 and Haas Company (now Dow Chemical) for 15 years where she led project teams.

She obtained a PhD in STEM educaon research and policy analysis from NC State University in 2014 where she examined Richard Tapia was born in Los Angeles, factors that predict science self-efficacy, science identy, and California to parents who emigrated from STEM career intent in a naonally representave sample of high Mexico. In 2011 he was awarded the school students. She is the founder of the SMART Scholars Naonal Medal of Science, the highest iniave for middle school girls that provide hands-on STEM honor bestowed by the United States government on sciensts outreach, role models, and parent resources in NC and the and engineers. This award spotlighted the disnguished metropolitan Washington, DC area. She is a long-me member contribuons he has made to the mathemacal froners of of the Naonal Organizaon of Black Chemists and Chemical opmizaon theory and numerical analysis, but it also brought Engineers and serves on the Naonal Execuve Board. aenon to another achievement: his long-me work in inspiring underrepresented minority and female students in She is also a long-me member of the American Chemical science and math. He is a mathemacian in Rice University’s Society where she serves as Manager and STEM Educaon Chair Department of Computaonal and Applied Mathemacs and of the Chemical Society of Washington. She has received several holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest acknowledgements for her STEM outreach that include a 2016 academic tle awarded to only seven individuals in the nominaon for the Presidenal Award for Excellence in Science, university’s history. Among his numerous other honors are the Math, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), and the 2017 Naonal Science Board’s Vannevar Bush Award and elecon to Women of Color in STEM Promoon of Educaon Award. the Naonal Academy of Engineering, the first Hispanic to receive these honors. He holds seven honorary doctorates and has given commencement addresses at six major universies. Two professional conferences have been named in his honor: the Richard Tapia Celebraon of Diversity in Compung Isa Watson is the Founder and CEO of Conference and the Blackwell-Tapia Mathemacs Conference. Squad by Envested, a data-driven Tapia served on the Naonal Science Board from 1996-2002. so ware company revoluonizing how Because of his leadership, Rice University is recognized as a people create meaningful connecons naonal leader in the preparaon of women and across their work-life experience. Named underrepresented minority doctoral degree recipients in in Inc Magazine’s “30 under 30” list in science, engineering, and mathemacs. 2017, Squad by Envested has also been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Inc and Entrepreneur.com. The company receives backing by notable Silicon Valley VC firms, like Harrison Metal and Precursor VC with enterprise customers companies like Walmart.com, Jet and WeWork. Iris R. Wagstaff is a STEM Program Director in Educaon and Human Isa earned an MBA from the Massachuses Instute of Resources Programs at the American Technology, a M.S. in Pharmacology from Cornell University and Associaon for the Advancement of a B.S. in Chemistry from Hampton University, where she was an Science (AAAS). She is a former 2015- American Chemical Society and Naonal Science Foundaon 2017 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Scholar. Before founding Squad, Isa was a Vice President of Fellow at the Naonal Instute of Jusce Office of Invesgave Digital Strategy at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) in New York and and Forensic Sciences where she led an agency-wide strategic Hong Kong, where she worked closely with senior management diversity and inclusion iniave. She is a nave of Goldsboro, NC to build and execute various strategic iniaves across product and has a BS and MS in Chemistry from UNC-Greensboro and NC development, analycs, markeng and client services across A&T State Universies respecvely. various JPMC businesses. Prior to this, Isa worked at Pfizer both as a research chemist and as a clinical trial strategy analyst. In She has over 20 years of STEM outreach and advocacy the research group, she developed drug candidates for diabetes developing informal science programs, mentoring, resourcing treatment, with her work on glucokinase acvators published in parents, and working with K-12 science teachers to develop Tetrahedron Leers. In the clinical group, she designed and culturally relevant and engaging lessons with real-world executed stascal analyses to inform and support the global applicaons. She has advocated for students at the K-20 levels clinical strategies for Lyrica® in over 15 countries. and built strategic partnerships between industry, educators, and researchers. She worked as a research chemist at the Rohm

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Kaaba White received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Virginia State University in 2015, going on to complete his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering concentraon in System Engineering from Tuskegee University in the following year. Currently working as a Reliability Data Analysist and Computer Programmer at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Corona, California, his professional interests focus on RAM (Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability), Cybersecurity, and Data Science. Kaaba’s current projects include reliability analysis for Standard Missile, and creaon of a cyber-range at NSWC Corona with connecvity to other warfare centers to develop cyber metrics and promote collaboraon. He led a muldisciplinary team spanning a Capture the Flag event against other warfare centers in the NAVSEA community. In addion, he serves as a member and mentor for Blacks in Government (B.I.G), to help high school students who are interested in STEM with robocs, programming, and oratory. He is also a member of the Instute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Naonal Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 31 Daniel Akins, The City College of New Emmi Jolly, Case Western Reserve James Sth, Vice President Emeritus, York University American Instute of Physics Linda Akli, SURA Tina King, King Educaon Consultants Andrea Sth, UC Santa Barbara Angela Allen, Shaw University Bob King, King Educaon Consultants Alexei Stortchevoi , Massachuses Cheryl Alston, Rered Chemistry Teacher Elaine Lalanne, NSBP Instute of Technology David Beam, Conneccut Pre- Mary Ann Leung, Sustainable Horizons Fedora Suon, Science Visions Inc. Engineering Program Instute Gregory Triple , Virginia Kenneth Boue, Xavier University of LA Nicholas Luke, North Carolina A&T State Commonwealth University Candice Bridge, University of Central Florida University Delia J. Valles-Rosales, New Mexico Sukari Brown, Deloi & Touche Arlene Maclin, Howard University State University Reeshemah Burrell , Consultant Marisa Madison, Miami Dade College Kedra Wallace, University of Mississippi Medical Center Eugene Butler, III , Myo Bio, LLC Joyce Mahews, Fairfax County Schools Edward Walton, California State Alvin Collins, American Chemical Society Larry Max, Norfolk State University Polytechnic University, Pomona Ted Conway, Florida Instute of Melissa McCartney, Florida Internaonal Nikki Washington, Winthrop University Technology University Luisa Whiaker, Brooks University of Agnes Day, Howard University James McGee, Lone Star College Utah Cyntrica Eaton, STC Tanisha McGlothen, Spelman College Joycelyn Wilson, Spelman College Melanie Eddins-Spencer, Prairie State Camille McKayle, University of the Virgin Danyelle Winchester, Johns Hopkins College Islands Victor Wya-Prater, USDA Omnia El-Hakim, Colorado State Knashawn Morales, University of University Pennsylvania Lisa Elliot, Rochester Instute of Tagbo Niepa, University of Pennsylvania Technology Shansa Norman, Sandia Naonal Anissa Evans Buckner, University of Laboratories Arkansas at Pine Bluff Joseph Nunez, Schoolcra College Yayin Fang, Howard University Michael Page, Cal Poly Pomona Chantel Fuquay, AAMC University Gigi Galiana, Yale University Lance Pérez , University of Nebraska- Stephanie Gloster, Accenture Lincoln Patrice Gregory, Sandia Naonal Manu Pla, Georgia Instute of Laboratories Technology Angela Grimes, Covance Nadeene Riddick, American University Paul Gueye, NSCL Stephen Roberson , NSBP Michelle Guinn, Belmont University Willie Rockward, Morgan State Mary Harris, BioTechnical Dione Rossiter, Carnegie Instuon for Communicaons, Inc. Science D. Ahmasi Harris, BAE Systems Carmen Sidbury, The Sidbury Group, LLC Racquel Jemison, ACS Christopher Sims, UMD Kayenda Johnson, United States Digital Aubrey Smith, Montgomery College Service at the Centers for Medicare Michael Smith, Intel and Medicaid Services Tokiwa Smith, SEM link

32 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM 23 Associaon of American Medical Colleges 18 Rensselaer Polytechnic Instute

19 Binghamton University, State University of NY 45 Tennessee State University, Engineering

21 Colgate-Palmolive Company 20 Texas A&M University OGAPS

22 Colorado School of Mines 38 UChicago Biosciences

3 Columbia University School of Engineering 37 UCLA Graduate Programs in Bioscience

13 Emory University, Laney Graduate School 31 University of Albany, SUNY

4 FAMU-FSU Engineering 15 University of Alabama at Birmingham

8 GlaxoSmithKline 35 University of California San Diego

39 Graduate Studies UC Davis 27 University of California, Riverside

7 Indiana University 34 University of California, Santa Cruz

46 Jetstream - Indiana University 10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

41 MD Anderson UTHealth GSBS 11 University of Michigan - Pharmacy & SEAS

36 Michigan State University Graduate School 30 University of Michigan Medical School - OGPS

26 Michigan Technological University 25 University of Missouri

16 Naonal Instute of Standards & Technology 50 University of Nebraska Medical Center

1 Naonal Research Mentoring Network 14 University of North Texas College of Science

9 Naonal Science Foundaon 32 University of South Florida

29 NOAA Educaon 43 University of Southern California

40 North Carolina Central University 42 University of Southern California - PIBBS

33 North Carolina State University 6 UT Health San Antonio, Graduate School

5 Northwestern University 48 UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Instute 17 NYU Tandon School of Engineering 24 Wayne State University Graduate School 2 Penn State Applied Research Laboratory 12 Worcester Polytechnic Instute 47 Penn State University College of Engineering 44 XSEDE 49 Pennsylvania State University

28 Purdue University

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 33 Table 23 Care and Pet Nutrion. Colgate-Palmolive sells its products in Associaon of American Medical Colleges over 200 countries and territories around the world under such 655 K Street, N.W. internaonally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Washington, DC 20001 Mennen, So soap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, Elmex, Tom's of Maine, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, and Suavitel, as well as Contacts: Rebecca Rice, [email protected] Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescripon Diet. For more Julie Gilbert, [email protected] informaon about Colgate-Palmolive's global business, visit the Company's web site at www.Colgate.com. To learn more about Founded in 1876 and based in Washington, D.C., the AAMC Colgate's global oral health educaon program, Bright Smiles, (Associaon of American Medical Colleges) is a not-for-profit Bright Futures™, please visit hp://www.colgatebsbf.com. associaon dedicated to transforming health care through innovave medical educaon, cung-edge paent care, and groundbreaking medical research. Its members are all 151 Table 22 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; Colorado School of Mines nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, 1500 Illinois St including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; Golden, CO 80401 and more than 80 academic sociees. Through these instuons and organizaons, the AAMC serves the leaders of America’s Contact: Molly McAndrew, [email protected] medical schools and teaching hospitals and their more than

173,000 full-me faculty members, 89,000 medical students, Colorado School of Mines is a research university long known for 129,000 resident physicians, and more than 60,000 graduate its excellent academic programs in engineering and applied students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical science, and its specialized and focused mission to enhance sciences. understanding of the earth, energy and the environment —

Mines is helping find answers to some of the major problems of

our me. Mines offers nearly 70 opons – plus minors – in a full Table 19 range of science, engineering and related disciplines, including Binghamton University, State University of NY North America's only graduate degree in Underground PO Box 6000 Construcon and Tunnel Engineering. Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Contact: Margaret Wolford, [email protected] Table 3 Binghamton University, a naonally disnguished State Columbia University School of Engineering University of New York (SUNY) Center of Excellence, combines 500 West 120 Street, MC 4708 the atmosphere of a mid-sized public instuon with the New York, NY 10027 resources of a large research university. Whether you are a full- me student looking to immerse yourself in a master’s or Contact: Tiffany Simon, [email protected] doctoral program or a professional working to earn an advanced degree or cerficate, you can find your fit here: the University Columbia University’s Fu Foundaon School of Engineering and offers more than 60 master’s programs, 30 doctoral degrees, Applied Science offers graduate degrees in applied physics, and 15 cerficates. Binghamton University is proud to be ranked applied mathemacs, biomedical engineering, business among the elite public universies in the naon for challenging analycs, chemical engineering, civil engineering, engineering our students academically, not financially. management systems, engineering mechanics, computer engineering, computer science, earth and environmental engineering, electrical engineering, financial engineering, industrial engineering, operaons research, materials science, Table 21 and mechanical engineering. Our academic programs allow Colgate-Palmolive Company students to advance knowledge in classical engineering or 909 River Road applied science disciplines or delve into new, excing Piscataway, NJ 08855 interdisciplinary fields. Degrees can be pursued on a full-or part-

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34 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Table 13 high-quality and needed healthcare products to as many people Emory University, Laney Graduate School as possible, with our three global businesses, scienfic and 201 Dowman Drive technical know-how and talented people. Our values and Atlanta, GA 30322 expectaons are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. Our values are Paent focus, Contact: Amanda Marie James, Transparency, Respect, Integrity. Our expectaons are Courage, [email protected] Accountability, Development, Teamwork.

Emory's Graduate School was organized as a disnct division of the University in 1919 and awarded its first PhD to a student in Table 39 chemistry in 1948. In the years since, graduate educaon at Graduate Studies UC Davis Emory has made tremendous advances, and in 2009, we were 250 Mrak Hall named a er Dr. James T. Laney, President of Emory. Today, the One Shields Ave Laney Graduate School offers the PhD and Master’s degrees in Davis, CA 95616 more than 40 programs across the humanies, social sciences, biomedical and natural science, public health, nursing and Contact: Lynne Arcangel, [email protected] business. Our graduate students are present in nearly every area of research at Emory, working with esteemed faculty and Study at one of the world’s premier public research universies researchers to solve the complex problems of our me and and gain the knowledge and experience that make UC Davis advance the global good. graduates leaders in their fields. While here, you’ll enjoy the beauful California environment and life in a tradional college town. UC Davis graduate programs engage students in cung- Table 4 edge technology and ideas—winning naonal recognion for FAMU-FSU Engineering connued innovaon and contribung to the economic and 2525 Posdamer Street social well-being of California, the naon and the world. Our Tallahassee, FL 32310 master’s and doctoral graduates go on to become leaders in their fields—researchers, teachers, public policymakers, Contact: Subramanian Ramakrishnan, mentors and entrepreneurs. With 100 different graduate [email protected] programs, UC Davis has something for everyone. Come see what we have to offer you! The most diverse college of engineering and the only joint college in the naon! We bring innovave soluons to real- world challenges with world-class researchers and a vibrant Table 7 student community. The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Indiana University offers graduate programs in biomedical, chemical, civil, Wells Library electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering. Programs are 1320 E 10th St offered at the master's non-thesis, master's thesis and doctoral Bloomington, IN 47405 level in each discipline. We recently added a M.S. non-thesis in systems engineering. Contacts: Bianca Evans, [email protected]

The University Graduate School is a recognized leader in Table 8 developing new concepts and best pracces for graduate GlaxoSmithKline educaon, which makes Indiana University Bloomington a 1250 S. Collegeville Road premier locaon to earn your graduate degree. At Bloomington Collegeville, PA 19426 there are master’s programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and Ph.D. programs and/or Ph.D. minors in the College of Arts Contacts: Lamont Terrell, [email protected] and Sciences, the Jacobs School of Music, the Kelley School of Giovan Lane, [email protected] Business, the School of Educaon, the School of Informacs, the Maurer School of Law, the School of Library and Informaon GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special Science, the School of Optometry, and the School of Public and purpose: to help people do more, feel beer, live longer. We Environmental Affairs. Visit hp://graduate.indiana.edu/ have three global businesses that research, develop and admissions/apply.shtml for addional informaon on applying manufacture innovave pharmaceucal medicines, vaccines to Indiana University. Visit hp://graduate.indiana.edu/ and consumer healthcare products. Our goal is to be one of the admissions/programs.shtml to browse our master's, doctoral world’s most innovave, best performing and trusted and professional degrees, or graduate cerficates. healthcare companies. Our strategy is to bring differenated,

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 35 Table 46 (Sociology, Psychology, Linguiscs, Community Sustainability, Jetstream - Indiana University Communicaon, Anthropology, etc). Post-doctoral and Post- 2709 E 10th Street baccalaureate opportunies are also available in various Cyberinfrastructure Building departments. Bloomington, IN 47408

Contact: Sanjana Sudarshan, [email protected] Table 26 Winona Snapp-Childs, [email protected] Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Jetstream, led by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Houghton, MI 49931 Instute (PTI) with the Texas Advanced Compung Center (TACC) as a major partner, adds cloud-based, on-demand Contact: Ashli Wells, [email protected] compung and data analysis resources to the naonal cyberinfrastructure. With a focus on ease of use and broad Michigan Technological University is commied to delivering a accessibility, Jetstream is designed for those who have not disncve and rigorous discovery-based learning experience to previously used high performance compung and so ware all students. Its graduate programs span engineering, science, resources. The system is parcularly geared toward 21st-century business, and communicaon disciplines. Graduates from these workforce development at small colleges and universies. programs are acvely recruited because of their intellectual abilies and praccal skills. Students in all graduate programs gain experience using technological innovaon to address issues Table 41 related to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. MD Anderson UTHealth GSBS The University places a premium on matching the professional 6767 Bertner Avenue and personal interests of prospecve graduate students with S3.8328a those of faculty mentors who are experts in their fields. Houston, TX 77030 Michigan Tech is large enough to be rich in resources, but small enough to provide a highly personalized graduate educaon Contacts: Gregory Garcia, [email protected] experience. Eric Swindell, [email protected]

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Table 16 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is a unique partnership Naonal Instute of Standards & Technology between the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 100 Bureau Drive and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Stop 0109 (UTHealth), instuons that are leading the fight against cancer Gaithersburg, MD 20899 and other major diseases that impact human health and quality of life. The curriculum is designed to provide students with a Contacts: Jeanita Pritche, jeanita.pritche@nist.gov rigorous exposure to crical thinking strategies, area-specific Kara Arnold, [email protected] scienfic skills and career development iniaves. The curriculum, together with an emphasis on research training and The Naonal Instute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was scienfic producvity, is designed to posion our students for founded in 1901 and is now part of the U.S. Department of an outstanding and successful career in the biomedical sciences. Commerce. NIST is one of the naon's oldest physical science laboratories. Congress established the agency to remove a major challenge to U.S. industrial compeveness at the me— Table 36 a second-rate measurement infrastructure that lagged behind Michigan State University Graduate School the capabilies of the United Kingdom, Germany, and other 466 W. Circle Drive economic rivals. From the smart electric power grid and 130 Chienden Hall electronic health records to atomic clocks, advanced East Lansing, MI 48824 nanomaterials, and computer chips, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology, measurement, and Contact: Steven Thomas, [email protected] standards provided by the Naonal Instute of Standards and Technology. We are accepng applicaons for undergraduate admission, graduate school and summer internships from students interested in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemacs fields as well as the Social Behavioral Sciences

36 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Table 1 Table 33 Naonal Research Mentoring Network North Carolina State University 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. The Graduate School, Campus Box 7102 Fort Worth, TX 76107 Raleigh, NC 27695

Contact: Jamboor Vishwanatha, Contact: David Shafer, [email protected] [email protected] North Carolina State University offers master’s and doctoral The Naonal Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) is a programs in a full range of tradional disciplines, as well as naonwide consorum of biomedical professionals and interdisciplinary programs that ancipate market trends and instuons collaborang to provide enhanced networking and respond to naonal needs. Science, technology, engineering, mentorship to individuals from diverse backgrounds who are and mathemacs are our core strengths. We also offer strong pursuing biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social science programs in design, educaon, management, the humanies, research careers (biomedical research careers). NRMN is and the social sciences. Our locaon in North Carolina’s intended to enable mentees across career stages to find Research Triangle means the best of industry-government- effecve mentors who will engage in producve, supporve and university partnerships. Our quarter century old Centennial culturally responsive mentoring relaonships. Campus reflects the university model of the future, where young invesgators collaborate with faculty mentors, private companies, and public agencies to solve real-world problems. Table 9 NC State boasts a talented graduate student body of over 8900 Naonal Science Foundaon (NSF) master’s and doctoral students who reflect a richness and 2415 Eisenhower Ave. diversity that energize this community of scholars. They come Alexandria, VA 22314 from all 50 states and from over 100 countries. On average, we confer about 3000 graduate degrees each year. Contact: NSF Representave

Please visit table #9 to learn more about the Naonal Science Table 5 Foundaon. Northwestern University 633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60626 Table 29 NOAA Educaon Contact: Damon Williams, 1315 East West Hwy [email protected] Silver Spring, MD 20910 Northwestern University’s (NU) U.S. campuses are located along Contact: Marlene Kaplan, [email protected] the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. In 2008, a third campus opened in Doha, Naonal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administraon(NOAA) Qatar’s Educaon City. Whether you are a prospecve student, includes the Naonal Weather Service, Naonal Marine a parent, faculty or staff, we welcome you to come visit our Fisheries Service and Naonal Ocean Service, as well as campus and learn more about NU and The Graduate School. research and satellite operaons. NOAA employs staff across Visit our webpage “About Evanston and Chicago” (hps:// many disciplines of Earth sciences. www.tgs.northwestern.edu/about/our-campuses/about- evanston-and-chicago.html) to learn more about our campuses and our world-class libraries and research facilies. Table 40 North Carolina Central University 1801 Fayeeville Street Table 17 Taylor Educaon Building NYU Tandon School of Engineering Room 123 Wunsch Bldg, 6 MetroTech Ctr Durham, NC 27707 Brooklyn, NY 11201

Contact: Sabrina Butler, [email protected] Contact: Leanna Kowallis, [email protected]

NCCU has over 30 master's and professional degree programs New York University (NYU), the largest private, non-profit and a Ph.D. in Integrated Biosciences. academic instuon in the U.S., encompasses a vast network of 18 schools, which gives students unlimited global access to

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 37 three NYU portal campuses and 11 global academic centers. Table 47 Located in New York City's Brooklyn Tech Triangle, NYU Tandon Penn State University College of Engineering School of Engineering is a major player in New York's ongoing 211 Hammond Building tech renaissance, where students can connect to thousands of University Park, PA 16802 creave and leading organizaons in this epicenter of business and technology. Graduate programs are in the fields of Contact: Erin Hostetler, [email protected] mechanical, civil, urban, industrial, electrical, computer, chemical, biomedical and financial engineering alongside The Pennsylvania State University is a state-related, land-grant, programs in computer science, management of technology, doctoral university with campuses and facilies throughout cybersecurity, and integrated digital media. Our primary focus Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers High School of remains to produce highly prepared and desirable graduates, Pennsylvania, the university has a stated threefold mission of which has led us to be one of the top ranked schools in the teaching, research, and public service. Its instruconal mission naon with regards to graduate employability, salary potenal, includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and connuing and return on investment. educaon offered through resident instrucon and online delivery. The College of Engineering is driven to support research that impacts the lives of people around the world — Table 2 including disease-fighng technologies, the development of Penn State Applied Research Laboratory sustainable infrastructures, and impacng energy, 225 Science Park Road environmental, and transportaon systems. We are commied Dock 224 ARL, Mailstop 1000A to impacng society and embracing the challenges ahead with a State College, PA 16803 passion for a bright future for humankind.

Contacts: Wayne Gersie, [email protected] Alfree Conklin, [email protected] Table 49 Pennsylvania State University The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at The Pennsylvania 111D Kern Graduate Building State University is an integral part of one of the leading research University Park, PA 16802 universies in the naon and serves as a university center of excellence in defense science and technologies, with a focus in Contacts: Stephanie Danee Preston, [email protected] naval missions and related areas. As a DoD-designated, U.S. Tierra Caldwell, [email protected] Navy UARC (University Affiliated Research Center), ARL James Guyton, [email protected] maintains a long-term strategic relaonship with the U.S. Navy and provides support for the other services. ARL provides The development of crical thought is one of the cornerstones science, systems, and technology for naonal security, economic of the University. Such crical thought is dependent upon compeveness, and quality of life through educaon, scienfic demographic and cultural diversity. The units of the Vice Provost discovery, technology demonstraon, and transion to for Graduate Educaon and Dean of the Graduate School define applicaon. diversity as “a climate which encourages representaon of faculty, staff, and students from typically underrepresented The Electro-Opcs Center (EOC), a proud part of The enes, including those from racial/ethnic minority groups, Pennsylvania State University, is a hybrid between the best various countries and cultures, genders, persons with components of a university and those of private industry. This disabilies, and those from a mixture of religions and sexual relaonship allows us access to the university's researchers and orientaons.” The Office of Graduate Educaonal Equity sciensts, its state-of-the-art facilies and leading-edge Programs leads the Graduate School’s efforts to foster diversity research. Our staff, comprised primarily of former industry and and to provide a welcoming climate for both prospecve and DoD personnel, brings experience in exceeding sponsor and current graduate students from underrepresented groups. The corporate expectaons. Through the applicaon of this hybrid office designs and implements mentoring programs; recruitment model, the EOC is able to provide its sponsors with soluons programs; professional development and retenon programs; that combine leading-edge research with on-me and on- and conferences, seminars, workshops, and lectures. The office budget deliveries. US Cizenship is required for employment at also leads the Summer Research Opportunies Program at Penn ARL. State and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

38 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Table 28 computer engineering. The College also awards B.S. degrees in Purdue University Computer Science and Aeronaucal and Industrial Technology. 155 South Grant Street On the graduate level, the College provides the Master of Young Hall, Room B68 Engineering degree with concentraons in Civil, Electrical, West Lafayee, IN 47907 Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, the M.S. degree in Computer Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Contact: Kathy Dixon, [email protected] Informaon Systems Engineering. Recognizing the need for developing graduates with an appreciaon for global awareness, The Purdue University Graduate School is commied to solid engineering fundamentals, and professionalism, the TSU enhancing the experience of all students from diverse College of Engineering develops and promotes an educaonal backgrounds. Our unique programs and iniaves ensure experience that produces the 'global engineer' through life or Purdue is a welcoming campus where our graduate students language learning, a FE-based (Fundamentals of Engineering) can excel — both academically and personally. The Graduate curriculum for outcome assessment, and crical skills in School oversees graduate educaon that includes more than 80 research, design, problem solving, and communicaon. The graduate programs at the West Lafayee campus and nearly 40 College provides pre-college engineering camps, undergraduate programs at four addional campuses across the State of research experiences, as well as scholarships/fellowships for Indiana. eligible undergraduate and graduate students.

Table 18 Table 20 Rensselaer Polytechnic Instute Texas A&M University OGAPS Graduate Admissions 112 Jack K Williams Admin Bldg 110 8th Street College Staon, TX 77843 Troy, NY 12180 Contact: Tasmin McDonald, [email protected] Contact: Kishmar Best, [email protected] The Office of Graduate and Professional Studies (OGAPS) is a Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instute is the oldest global leader in graduate educaon, commied to the pursuit of technological research university in the United States. Sing on knowledge and the power of intellect. Through exceponal a hill overlooking Troy NY, a revitalized city only 2.5 hours from service and commitment to the highest standards, OGAPS Manhaan, the lush campus offers a welcoming and advocates for graduate educaon at Texas A&M and throughout collaborave academic environment to support the learning Texas. OGAPS is commied to a diverse campus climate, and research of over 1,000 graduate students. Rensselaer offers enhancement of the graduate experience and the development a wide range of graduate programs across 5 schools: of all students as global cizens. Architecture, Engineering, Science, Lally School of Management, and Humanies, Arts and Social Sciences. The interdisciplinary research culture at Rensselaer provides students an experience Table 38 across mulple disciplines and sectors while exposing them to UChicago Biosciences mulple perspecves as they are trained to tackle the global 924 E 57th Street problems facing humanity in the 21st century. Chicago, IL 60637

Contact: Nancy Schwartz, [email protected] Table 45 Tennessee State University, Engineering UChicago Biosciences offers 18 programs designed to lead to the 3500 John A. Merri Blvd. PhD; the program in Public Health Sciences offers a master's Torrence Hall degree for clinical professionals in addion to the PhD. We also Nashville, TN 37209 offer combined MD/PhD degrees. University of Chicago graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in the biosciences Contact: Frances Williams, [email protected] break new ground every day. We have a long history of research excellence and notable achievements among our alumni and Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, urban, faculty. At UChicago, you benefit from immersion in one of the land-grant university, founded in 1912. The 450-acre campus is world's preeminent research universies, and our community of located in Nashville, the capitol of Tennessee. The TSU College scholars benefits from you - emerging sciensts with bright of Engineering offers B.S. degrees in Architectural, Civil, minds, unbridled enthusiasm, and plenty of fresh ideas. As an Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, with several internaonal intellectual desnaon, the University of Chicago concentraons such as manufacturing, environmental, and draws students, researchers, and faculty to exchange ideas

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 39 freely, challenging the status quo and one another to push the technology, business, healthcare and educaon and provides boundaries of their fields, leading to world-changing discoveries limitless opportunies for internships and public service. and insights. The University's hallmark emphasis on interdisciplinary research and collaboraon, coupled with access to the latest technology and to three major affiliated Table 15 laboratories, offers a graduate experience in the biosciences University of Alabama at Birmingham unavailable anywhere else. 1825 University Blvd. SHEL 121 Birmingham, AL 35294-2182 Table 37 UCLA Graduate Programs in Bioscience Contact: Randy Seay, [email protected] Box 951570, 2305 Life Sciences 621 Charles E. Young Drive South The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a research Los Angeles, CA 90095 university and academic medical center that encompasses 112 city blocks and has a student enrollment of more than 24,000. Contact: Diana Azurdia, [email protected] UAB is home to a large graduate school, a world-renowned health care complex, and more than 100 different research Graduate Programs in Bioscience is a consorum of 10 home centers focusing on such diverse issues as cancer prevenon, areas and their affiliated Ph.D. programs, organized to provide personalized medicine, biodefense, and emerging infecous the best possible research training and professional diseases. UAB includes the School of Medicine (MD, MD-PHD, development for graduate students pursuing Ph.Ds in the life MD-MPH, MD-MBA), School of Public Health (Dual Degree MPH and biomedical sciences. These Home Areas include: Programs, MPH, MSPH, DrPH, PhD), School of Optometry (Vision Biochemistry; Biophysics & Structural Biology; Bioinformacs; Sciences PhD, OD) School of Arts and Sciences (MA, MS, PHD), Cell & Developmental Biology; Gene Regulaon; Genecs & and Graduate Biomedical Sciences (PHD). We invite you to join Genomics; Immunity; Microbes & Molecular Pathogenesis; more than 4,400 graduate students who are enrolled in UAB's Molecular Pharmacology; Molecular, Cellular & Integrave 40 doctoral programs and 51 master's programs. Many of these Physiology; Neuroscience; and Physics & Biology in Medicine. programs unite different disciplines and cross departmental and These academic “homes” are designed by faculty to promote school lines, illustrang the strong interdisciplinary character of and support individualized training and career-building the university. Become part of our unique and select group of opportunies for students in the home area. This framework students training to become tomorrow's leaders in science and provides specialized, in-depth educaonal programs while medicine. Visit us at www.uab.edu/graduate and www.uab.edu/ maintaining flexibility for students to explore froners beyond medicine any single home area. Likewise, faculty are able to contribute in mulple home areas according to their research interests. Providing students with a combinaon of deep immersion in a Table 35 field and the opportunity to explore new horizons creates University of California San Diego limitless and unique educaonal possibilies. Each home area is 9500 Gilman Drive #0003 affiliated with a degree-granng Ph.D. program, a union that San Diego, CA 92093-0003 sets the specific courses, advising opportunies, and research, scholarship, and examinaon requirements. Contacts: Angeline Yang, [email protected] Chandler Puriy, cpuri[email protected]

Table 31 The University of California San Diego is recognized as one of the University at Albany, SUNY top 15 research universies worldwide. We have a culture of 1400 Washington Avenue collaboraon which sparks discoveries that advance society and Albany, NY 12222 drives economic impact. Everything we do is dedicated to ensuring our students have the opportunity to become Contact: Shanise Kent, [email protected] changemakers, equipped with the muldisciplinary tools needed to accelerate answers to our world’s most pressing issues. At The University at Albany, State University of New York, is the the University of California San Diego, diversity is a core premier public research university in New York's Capital Region. component of excellence that further enhances our quality and UAlbany offers over 150 doctoral, master's and graduate achievement. We seek a diverse graduate student body to cerficate programs, renowned faculty, state-of-the-art ensure that all of our students gain the educaonal benefits that facilies, affordable educaon, and a diverse student body. The result from being exposed to a broad spectrum of ideas and Capital Region is home to bustling industries like government, perspecves.

40 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM These include the variety of personal experiences, values, and At the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), doctoral and worldviews that arise from differences of culture and master’s students study and parcipate in research in areas that circumstance. Such differences include race, ethnicity, gender, define 21st century technology and human advancement and age, religion, language, abilies/disabilies, sexual orientaon, address the most significant challenges and opportunies of our socioeconomic status, geographic region and more. We wish to me, including life and health, data science, energy, and broaden and deepen both the educaonal experience and the accessibility. Our students learn and work in an environment of scholarly environment, as students and faculty learn to interact stunning natural beauty, nestled among the redwoods and effecvely with each other, preparing them to parcipate in an overlooking the Monterey Bay, with access in under an hour to increasingly complex and pluralisc society. We also want all of the heart of Silicon Valley. They are mentored by world- our students to contribute to the campus community in a renowned faculty, many with strong es to industry, and have manner that enhances campus diversity and inclusiveness, opportunies to engage in interdisciplinary research and consistent with the University of California Principles of interact with entrepreneurs and technology leaders through Community. Learn more about the University of California San internships and corporate-sponsored research. Graduate Diego’s academic and professional graduate degree programs at students are part of an acve community of scholars across hps://grad.ucsd.edu/ UCSC’s five academic divisions that is commied to the creave and ethical pursuit of academic excellence built on social and environmental responsibility. Table 27 University of California, Riverside 900 University Ave Table 10 Bourns Hall A220 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Riverside, CA 92521 110 Coble Hall 801 S. Wright Street Contacts: Adrienne Thomas, [email protected] Champaign, IL 61820 Kathy Redd, [email protected] Contacts: Ave Maria Alvarado, [email protected] Burns College of Engineering (BCOE) is home to cung-edge, Ellen Althaus, [email protected] high-risk, profoundly creave research. We're invested in internaonally recognized engineering research in hundreds of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in the emerging areas focused on solving the world's greatest micro-urban cies of Champaign, Urbana, and Savoy within challenges. Faculty and their research teams collaborate in driving distance from Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. With muldisciplinary research with colleagues at other colleges, an enrollment of more than 45,000 students, the University of campuses and industry leaders. Our accomplished faculty are Illinois “pioneers innovave research that tackles global leaders in their areas of study and include more than 90 fellows problems and expands the human experience. Our of professional sociees and more than 50 Naonal Instutes of transformave learning experiences, in and out of the Health, NSF CAREER, Bridge to Doctorate, and Young classroom, are designed to produce alumni who desire to make Invesgator recipients. Their dynamic research programs a significant, societal impact.” The Graduate College enrolls over address real-world problems and even define enrely new and 14,000 students and offers more than 130 master’s programs novel research areas. UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural and over 90 doctoral programs in a wide range of disciplinary Sciences seeks to expand fundamental scienfic knowledge in fields. Twenty-six of our advance degree programs are offered in the biological, physical, mathemacal, and agricultural sciences part or enrely online. Graduate School applicaon fee waivers, and to find innovave ways to apply that knowledge through fellowships, tuion waivers, and many other academic teaching and public service. An atmosphere of inmacy and opportunies are available to eligible current and prospecve excellence, diversity and disncon, and presge and graduate students in all fields of study. preeminence aracts the top faculty and students in the country. To learn about the Illinois Aspire Program, the Summer Research Opportunies Program (SROP), the Community of Scholars (COS) Program, the Summer Predoctoral Instute (SPI), the Table 34 Sloan University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM), the University of California, Santa Cruz Illinois Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program, and 1156 High Street numerous other opportunies, please visit our website at m/s: SOEGRAD hp://www.grad.illinois.edu. Santa Cruz, CA 95064

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2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 41 Table 11 Experience the Joy of Discovery and Innovaon: Graduate Study University of Michigan - Pharmacy & SEAS in the Life Sciences at the University of Missouri. 428 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109  The joy of discovery has propelled the University of Missouri to one of the top-ranked research instuons in Contacts: Cherie Dotson, [email protected] the 21st Century. Jung Koral, [email protected]  Our Ph.D. programs emphasize interdisciplinary collaboraon and innovaon. University of Missouri faculty The University of Michigan - College of Pharmacy offers Ph.D. from diverse disciplines come together to develop cures for degrees in Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceucal Sciences and human diseases, to improve our naon’s food supply, to Clinical Pharmacy. Graduate students in Medicinal Chemistry are develop new sources of biofuels, and to preserve and trained in research pertaining to drug discovery and drug design protect our environment, among many other research while those in Pharmaceucal Sciences are focused on the study areas. of drug transport and drug delivery systems. The Clinical  Our Ph.D. students use cung-edge technologies to solve Pharmacy program features tracks in Health Services Research problems. Our facilies include state-of-the-art Research and Precision Pharmacotherapy. Students with interests in Cores in Animal Modeling, Cell and Immunobiology, DNA, obtaining clinical training with regard to the pracce of Electron Microscopy, Informacs, Metabolomics, Molecular pharmacy are encouraged to consider the PharmD program. Cytology, Molecular Interacons, Nuclear Magnec Summer opportunies are available through the Pharmacy Resonance, and Proteomics. Scholars Program and the Interdisciplinary REU Program. Visit  We are commied to the success of our graduate students, hps://pharmacy.umich.edu. The University of Michigan - with strong mentorship programs and career-directed School for Environment & Sustainability offers MS, MLA, and resources. We offer a comprehensive support package PhD programs. MS students can track within Behavior, including spend, paid tuion, professional development Educaon & Communicaon; Environmental Informacs; resources, and travel funding. Columbia, Missouri is an Environmental Policy & Planning; Conservaon Ecology; excellent, diverse and affordable city with impressive Environmental Jusce and Sustainable Systems. The MLA amenies. program is ASLA accredited and features sustainable and ecological design. The PhD program is fully funded. Dual Learn More: hp://gradstudies.missouri.edu/ | Email: programs with Business, Law, Engineering, and other units are [email protected] also available. Summer opportunies are offered through the Doris Duke Conservaon Scholars Program. Visit seas.umich.edu. Table 50 University of Nebraska Medical Center 985840 Nebraska Medical Center Table 30 Omaha, NE 68198-5840 University of Michigan Medical School - OGPS 1135 Catherine Street Contacts: Kimberly Rothgeb, [email protected] 2960 Taubman Health Sciences Library Jen Brady, [email protected] Ann Arbor, MI 48109 At the University of Nebraska Medical Center, we have Contact: Jim Musgrave, [email protected] programs designed to prepare students for careers in academic medicine and/or research. The MD/PhD Scholars Program is The Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies is home to the designed to prepare a select group of outstanding students for graduate umbrella Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS) and careers in academic medicine and research. Applicants admied the Postbac Research Educaon Program (PREP). We also into this highly compeve program pursue original research connect students to summer research opportunies in the and parcipate in the medical school curriculum. By connually biomedical sciences. reinforcing the interacon between biomedical research and clinical medicine, this integraon prepares the student for a unique role as a physician-scienst. The Interdisciplinary Table 25 Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS) contains six University of Missouri interdisciplinary research-based doctoral programs that provide 1201 Rollins St. students with a solid, broad-based training in muldisciplinary 440D Bond Life Sciences Center biomedical research. This program provides research students Columbia, MO 65211 with greater flexibility and wider opportunies for choosing a laboratory in which to pursue their PhD research. Students can Contact: Debbie Allen, [email protected]

42 Conference Program Book 2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM pursue research in areas such as Biochemistry & Molecular Table 43 Biology; Cancer Research; Immunology, Pathology & Infecous University of Southern California Disease; Integrave Physiology & Molecular Medicine; 1985 Zonal Avenue Molecular Genecs & Cell Biology; and Neuroscience. Room 713 Addionally, we also offer Summer Undergraduate Research Los Angeles, CA 90089 opportunies and a Neuroscience Internship program. Contact: Rosie Soltero, [email protected]

Table 14 The USC School of Pharmacy (SOP) is a leading research and University of North Texas College of Science teaching instuon and a top ranked private pharmacy school. 1155 Union Circle In the most recent US News & World Report ranking of graduate Denton, TX 76203 programs in pharmacy, the SOP placed 9th in the naon. The School's graduate programs encompass a diverse community Contact: Heather Miller, [email protected] spanning the USC University Park and Health Sciences campuses. As part of one of the world's largest research Located in Denton, Texas, named as one of the naon's Best universies, the School's programs benefit from diverse course College Towns, the University of North Texas (UNT) is a offerings, cung-edge research and innovave thinking aiming Carnegie Tier One research university. Established in 1890, UNT to improve people's lives. Students are part of this vibrant is one of the naon’s largest public research universies with enterprise and their educaonal experience is punctuated by 38,000 students. UNT is a minority serving instuon cross-discipline conversaons and projects. Our intersecng commied to the advancement of the sciences and arts. The areas of experse allow for research and doctoral-level training university offers fourteen advanced degrees in the sciences and in every aspect of therapeuc development from drug offers aracve funding and tuion benefits to graduate discovery, delivery and mechanism to translaon and clinical students. tesng, regulatory science, outcomes analysis and policy development.

Table 32 The USC School of Pharmacy offers these MS and PhD degrees: University of South Florida College of Engineering  Programs in Pharmaceucal and Translaonal Sciences: (1) 4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118 MS and PhD in Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology; (2) Tampa, FL 33620 MS and PhD in Pharmaceucal Sciences; and (3) MS and PhD in Clinical and Experimental Therapeucs. Contact: Bernard Batson, [email protected]  Programs in Health Economics: (1) MS in BioPharmaceucal Markeng, (2) MS in Pharmaceucal Economics and Policy, The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact global (3) PhD in Health Economics, (4) MS in Healthcare Decision research university dedicated to student success with an annual Analysis. budget of $1.6 billion and over $450 million in research funding.  Programs in Regulatory Sciences: (1) MS and Professional USF ranked ranks fi h in the naon among public universies Doctorate (DRSc) in Regulatory Science, (2) MS in the for the number of new U.S. patents and 12th globally among Management of Drug Development, (3) MS in Medical universies worldwide for U.S. patents granted in 2017, Product Quality, (4) MS in Regulatory Management. according to a report released by the Naonal Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Associaon in These programs enrolled a total of 181 students, including 100 2018. Signature research iniaves are in the areas of Water, PhD students, 26 DRSc students and 55 MS students, for the Brain & Spinal Cord, Heart, Data Science, Human Security, and 2017-2018 academic year. Research Translaon. Fellowships, assistantships, and professional development opportunies are available for students sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundaon Table 42 University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM), NSF Florida- University of Southern California - PIBBS Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Parcipaon 1975 Zonal Avenue, KAM 409 (FGLSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate Project, McKnight Doctoral Los Angeles, CA 90089-9031 Fellowship Program, Office of Graduate Studies, and USF departments. Summer undergraduate research opportunies Contact: Joyce Perez, [email protected] are available in Computer Science and Engineering, Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Systems, Biomedical Sciences, Advanced Programs in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (PIBBS) is the Materials and Alternave Energy Systems. gateway into interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs at the Keck Medicine of USC. Our Ph.D. programs are interdepartmental and

2019 EMERGING RESEARCHERS NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEM Conference Program Book 43 are focused on broad approaches to modern biomedical provides students the opportunity to customize an engineering research. PIBBS is an umbrella program with disnguished degree program relevant to your research interests in clean faculty focused on health-related research. The PIBBS program technology or biotechnology while developing a systemic, offers students the breadth and flexibility to best pursue their raonal approach to engineering molecular systems that can be interests across the wide range of biomedical Ph.D. programs. applied in fields as diverse as energy, healthcare, or technology. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Programs include: Cancer Biology & Students meet naonally and internaonally recognized experts Genomics; Development, Stem Cell & Regenerave Medicine; in the developing field of molecular engineering, access state-of- Infecous Diseases, Immunology & Pathogenesis; Medical the-art facilies and instrumentaon for molecular-scale Biophysics. analysis, and disnguish themselves as experts in an interdisciplinary and cung-edge research area, prepared for a leading career in molecular engineering and sciences. The Table 6 University of Washington is ranked 13th globally, and 3rd among UT Health San Antonio, Graduate School U.S. public universies by the Academic Ranking of World Universies. The UW receives more federal research dollars Contact: Yvonne Valdez, [email protected] than any other public university in the naon, receiving over $1.3 billion in average total research awards over recent years. UT Health San Antonio, formally known as the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is the leading research instuon in South Texas and one of the major health Table 24 sciences universies in the world. With an operang budget of Wayne State University Graduate School $536 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for 5057 Woodward the $14.3 billion biosciences and health care industry, the Suite 6307.4 leading sector in San Antonio’s economy. UT Health San Antonio Detroit, MI 48202 has had an esmated $35 billion impact on the region since incepon and has expanded to six campuses in San Antonio, Contact: Farron McIntee, [email protected] Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 22,000 graduates (physicians, densts, nurses, sciensts and allied health Wayne State University Graduate School provides leadership in professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. UT advancing academic excellence in graduate and postdoctoral Health San Antonio faculty are internaonal leaders in cancer, educaon and culvates a supporve environment for research, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevenon, scholarly acvies and other creave endeavors that are kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant integral to the success of a diverse body of master's and surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate faculty management, genecs, nursing, allied health, denstry and across programs. many other fields. Graduate programs are on: Aging, Biochemistry, Cancer, Cell and Molecular Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Table 12 Physiology, Radiological Science and Translaonal Science. Worcester Polytechnic Instute Tuion and fees as well as student insurance is paid by the 100 Instute Road graduate school for most PhD students. There is a low faculty: Worcester, MA 01609 student rao that provides the ideal environment for personalized and strategic mentoring. Contact: Michael McGrade, [email protected]

Worcester Polytechnic Instute, one of the naon's premier Table 48 science- and engineering-focused universies, was founded in UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Instute 1865 with the mission of providing an educaon that balances 3946 W Stevens Way NE theory and pracce. A dynamic and welcoming graduate Seale, WA 98195-1653 community, world-renowned faculty mentors, a culture of collaboraon, spectacular research facilies, and close Contact: Paul Neubert, [email protected] relaonships with industry make WPI an outstanding environment for aspiring sciensts, engineers, innovators, and The interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Molecular Engineering entrepreneurs. Here, you will pursue cung-edge, (MolE) offers students the opportunity to work with over 115 muldisciplinary research and contribute to breakthroughs that faculty members from 14 different departments on BioTech deepen our understanding of the world, engender new lines of and/or CleanTech projects. It provides access to the state-of- inquiry, and meet the technological challenges facing the world the-art Molecular Analysis Facility, and also provides paid tuion today. combined with a highly compeve salary. The MolE PhD

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XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) is an NSF-funded virtual organizaon that integrates and coordinates the sharing of advanced digital services - including supercomputers and high-end visualizaon and data analysis resources - with researchers naonally to support science. Digital services provide users with seamless integraon to NSF's high-performance compung and data resources. XSEDE's integrated, comprehensive suite of advanced digital services combined with other high-end facilies and campus-based resources, serve as the foundaon for a naonal cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Sciensts, engineers, social sciensts, and humanists around the world – many of them at colleges and universies – use advanced digital resources and services every day. Things like supercomputers, collecons of data, and new tools are crical to the success of those researchers, who use them to make our lives healthier, safer, and beer.

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