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Spotlight on "Student Success 2005" - January 2005
Moses Price-May 2003 CSP Graduate,
BA in Sociology, Summer Bridge 99
Moses has just graduated in December 2004 with a Master degree in Social Work focusing on: Community Organization/Children & Youth in Families and Society. He is continuing his work at the University of Michigan in the Offi ce of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI) as a Program Assistant. Moses specifi cally works with the King, Chavez, Parks, (KCP) Program. This program works with underrepresented students who may have aspirations of attending college. Moses also works at Peace Neighborhood Center in Ann Arbor as a Program Assistant. He works with children of all ages in after school programs. He is also developing a program called Rising Son’s Male, which is a mentorship program for young boys. One day he hopes to leave the State of Michigan and do Social Work somewhere else.
Zakiya Fair, CSP Senior Zakiya is a Women’s Studies and Afro-American Studies (CAAS) Concentrator. She is doing a Pre-health curriculum. She keeps herself very busy as a Resident Advisor for Mary Markley Residence Hall and as a Research Assistant I at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Epidemiology Department. Congratulations to Zakiya for her acceptance into the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Georgia!
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Brandon Baugh, CSP Senior
Celllular and Molecular Biology Concentrator A word from Brandon... For the past year and a half I have been working with Dr. Jayne Reuben in the lab of Dr. Peter Ward in the Pathology department here at the University of Michigan. The main focus of Dr. Ward’s research is the regulation of the inflammatory response. In addition, they also study sepsis, ichemia/reperfusion and some of the signaling molecules involved in inflammatory response. During my time there I focused on the inflammatory response caused by ischemia/reperfusion in the lungs and liver. This past November I submitted an abstract entitled, “Multiple Selectin Blockade Decreases Chemokine Production During Liver Ischemia and Reperfusion” to the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Out of over 1,100 abstracts submiteed mine was not only accepted but one of just 54 students to be awarded an oral presentation. After presenting, I received an award for the best oral presentation in my category of the microbiological sciences. Presently, I have just finished another abstract that I will present at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) this April in San Diego. The presentation at FASEB will cover the effects of nerve growth factor on the inflammatory response. Currently, I am a 4th year, pre-med Cell and Molecular Biology concentrator here at the University, I will begin to apply to medical school this summer. Although I am not sure of all the schools I will apply to the short list is: Washington University, Case Western Reserve University, Cornell University, New York University, and University of Iowa with the University of Michigan being my first choice. I am a member of the Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society and the National Honors Society. Here at the University, I am a Peer Advisor for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) and a Biology and Chemistry tutor for the Comprehensive Studies Program (CSP). During my free time I enjoy playing sports, traveling, and helping underprivileged children learn to read.
