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Section: Awards/Honors > Graduate Scholars > 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
An Outside-the-Box Thinker
When Nathaniel Hudson was growing up in the early days of the computer, he enjoyed tinkering with technology and playing video games for hours. But he didn’t know computer science could be a career for him until he took a high school class on web design.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Change Agent
Angie Le’s hunger for knowledge has led her across the globe, from Vietnam to South Korea, and finally to Florida International University (FIU), where she expects to receive her Ph.D. in public affairs in summer 2022.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Difference Maker
For Bryan Jenkins, pursuing his doctorate was about broadening his horizons. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting and his master’s degree in health administration
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
A Scholar for Our Time
Born in New York and raised in Puerto Rico, Luis Miguel Mestre’s educational trajectory was changed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Marching to a Healthier Tune
As a Mexican-American woman pursuing a doctorate, Nancy Uriegas often reminds herself that she does, in fact, belong in academia.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Committed to Giving Back
Melissa Wheeler was propelled toward her doctorate by a professor once telling her that “statistically, you are not supposed to be here,” so she pursued not only a master’s degree in counseling psychology but is now a fourth-year doctoral candidate.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
An Inquiring Mind
In her Ph.D. research, Rhondene Wint combines wet lab experimentation with computational methods. She points out that her current research investigates the genetic basis of neurogenesis.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Finding Representation as First Gen. Graduate in Isolating STEM Fields
When Matthew Culberson realized as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) that he wanted to be a chemistry professor, he immediately scoured the college’s website to find a Black chemistry professor.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Working Toward Equitable Higher Education
Quatez Bernard Scott has been working in higher education for almost a decade, mostly in multicultural and student affairs. His current position is intercultural specialist at the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University.
March 16, 2022
Rising Graduate Scholars
Studying Race and Place
Pamela Zabala has used her experiences as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to inform her research and scholarship as she pursues her Ph.D. in sociology at Duke University.
March 16, 2022
