PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2009-2011
Alyia M. Massey, 2009-2010 Senior Class President
:: STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS 2010-2011 Bacteria and Yield More Types Compared to the Ones Worn during International Flight from Madagascar and South Africa back to the United States” at the National HBCU-UP Conference in Washington, D.C. on February 24-26, 2011. Michael Cobb completed an internship with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation during the summer of 2010.
He was also featured in the September 2010 issue of Ebony Magazine. Angelique Colen was accepted to the Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service
(IPVS) 2011 Summer Program. Natieka Green won the first place research award at the Minority Access Research
Conference in Las Vegas, NV, September 10-12, 2010. Her presentation was entitled “Alcohol Use in Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities.” Ulysses Hall and Gregory Mason presented documentary work at the 10th Annual
African American Cultural Celebration at the North Carolina Museum of History. Corey Leak successfully auditioned for the chorus of The North Carolina Opera
company and appeared in “Tosca” in October 2010.
Merone Zewde participated in a summer 2011 fellowship program Negative Soil Bacteria Transported by Shoes from South Africa and Madagascar to the at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Department United States May Infect Perishable Food” at the National HBCU-UP Conference in of Immunology. Washington, D.C. on February 24-26, 2011.
Shacoya Ross presented “Unidentified Cross-Continental Gram Positive and Gram
Destinii Smith participated in the 2011 National Science Foundation Summer Research
Program and studied “Design and Delivery of Polymer-Drug Complexes” at Virginia Tech. Christina Waldo performed for the North Carolina NAACP at the Daisy Bates Educational Summit in Raleigh, NC. Angela Wilson participated in the T. Howard Foundation Internship during the summer of 2011. The program provides
minority students with internship opportunities in the multimedia and entertainment industry. Merone Zewde participated in a college summer 2011 fellowship program at the University of Connecticut School of
Medicine Department of Immunology. Her presentation was titled “Bromelain Treatment of Mouse B Cells in Vitro Modulates the Expression of Cell Signaling Receptors.”
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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS
Tameisha Blackwell and Nichell Thompson presented “Shoes Kept Stored in Luggage May Contain higher CFU’s of Soil