Alumni

Alumni of EEGAP, MCGAP, PABGAP, CCBGAP, ASBIGAP, and a GAP program funded by the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences have entered doctoral programs at universities across the US (with one in the EU!). Their accomplishments make us proud and we look forward to following their careers.

Graduate Students at the University of California

Mayowa Adegboyega (Howard University, 2014; EEGAP)

 

Chidera Alim (Howard University, 2017; EEGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Molecular, Cell, and Integrative Physiology
  • MCIP Representative to the UC Davis Graduate Student Assembly, 2019-2020
  • Member, UC Davis Chancellor’s Graduate and Professional Advisory Board, 2019-2020

 

Nkechinyere Chidi-Ogbolu (Howard University, 2017; ASBIGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Biochemical Engineering
  • UC Davis, MS Biomedical Engineering, 2019
  • Member, UC Davis Chancellor’s Graduate and Professional Advisory Board, 2019-2020

 

Alexandria Igwe (Howard University, 2013; EEGAP): see a research synopsis and profile at project diversify and at the UC Ag and Natural Resources blog.

  • UC Davis PhD, Microbiology, 2020
  • research mentor for an EEGAP scholar in Summer 2018
  • starting Fall 2020: NSF postdoctoral fellow!!! in the Afkhami lab at the University of Miami. For more, see the UC ANR blog.

 

Chelsea Kelland (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2018; MCBGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Immunology
  • UC Davis IMSD Fellow, 2018-2019 cohort

 

Ke’La Kimble (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2019; CCBGAP)

 

T. Erin Malone (Tennessee State University, 2015; UC Davis CBS GAP)

  • UCSF DDS / PhD program
  • UCSD IMSD Fellow

Erin Manaigo (Howard University, 2016; EEGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Soils and Biogeochemistry

 

Bryshal Moore (MS Fort Valley State University, 2020; PABGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD student, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
  • UC Davis IMSD Fellow, 2020-2021 cohort

 

Esereoghene Mowoe (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 2018; MCBGAP)

  • UC Davis, Molecular, Cell, and Integrative Physiology, MS 2020

 

Frederick Nelson (Howard University, 2017; EEGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD student, Ecology
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
  • Vice President, Cal-Neva American Fisheries Society Sacramento-Davis Subunit
  • research mentor of a UC Davis McNair Scholar and HBCU GAP scholar

 

Sheriff-Seedy Phaal (MS Fort Valley State University, 2020; PABGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD student, Horticulture and Agronomy

 

Chandler Puritty (Howard University, 2015; EEGAP)

  • UC San Diego, PhD Ecology, 2019
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow
  • UCSD Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Leadership Award

 

Kabian Ritter (Howard University, 2017; EEGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Energy Systems
  • UC Davis College of Engineering Dorf Fellowship
  • UC Davis Department of Chemistry, Outstanding TA, 2019

 

Marlynn Rollins (Howard University, 2019; EEGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD student, Ecology
  • UC Davis Sustainable Oceans NSF Research Training Program, trainee

 

Rasheed Sule (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 2017; MCBGAP)

  • UC Davis PhD candidate, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

 

Kevin Wickham (Howard University, 2019; EEGAP)

  • UC Berkeley PhD student, Molecular and Cell Biology

 

Graduate Students at Other Institutions

  • Nia Johnson (Howard University, 2013; EEGAP), PhD program in Ecology, University of Michigan
  • De’Ashia Lee (Howard University, 2013; EEGAP), PhD program in Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina
  • Alaysia Madison (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2018; CCBGAP), iREU MS program in Chemistry, France-Belgium
  • Ashley Mello (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2020; MCBGAP), PhD program at the University of Michigan
  • Kristin Mckendall (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2018; CCBGAP), PhD program in Chemistry, Purdue University
  • Khalil Thomas (Xavier University of Louisiana, 2013; CBS GAP), Ph.D. program in Neuropsychology at Georgia State University and NSF Graduate Research Fellow