Jeff Ballyns
Central New York - Puerto Rico AGEP
Cornell University
Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Minor, Biomechanics, Cornell University, May 2005

CURRENT RESEARCH: Jeff is a member of Professor Larry Bonassar’s biomechanics research group. The focus of... » Read More

Rosa Banuelos
Rice-Houston AGEP
Rice University
Rosa is a second-year student in the department of statistics and she has just passed her A-exams. Her current advisor is Dr. Keith Baggerly at UT MD Anderson and their research involves analysis of exon arrays. (Rice University, 2006)... » Read More

Henry (Hank) Bart
Graduate Alliance for Education in Louisiana (GAELA)
Tulane University
Hank is currently the Director of the Tulane University Museum of Natural History and a faculty member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is an active leader in AGEP. He coordinates the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Minority... » Read More

Lucinda Begay
Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians (SAPAI)
University of Arizona
Lucinda Begay is a master's student focusing on organic chemistry at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Her thesis is on "Aggregation Behavior of Monorhamnolipids."

She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Arizona... » Read More

Robert Belle
Director, SREB-AGEP Doctoral Scholars Program
Southern Regional Education Board
Robert (Bob) Belle joined the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) in November 2002 as the Director for the SREB Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Doctoral Scholars Program. Prior to joining SREB Bob served as the Director o... » Read More

Bull Bennett
President and CEO
North Dakota Association of Tribal Colleges
Dr. T. M. Bull Bennett (Mi’kmaq), was born in Brunswick, ME, and grew up in the mountains and prairies of Wyoming. He studied field ecology as an undergraduate and earned a BS in Biology from Black Hills State University. He completed a MS in Zoology and ... » Read More

Valery Benton
Midwest Crossroads AGEP
Indiana University, Bloomington
Chicago native Valery Benton is a third-year doctoral student at Indiana University-Bloomington pursuing a dual degree in Neuroscience and Biochemistry. She is a graduate of Goshen College in northern Indiana, where she majored in molecular biology. Her... » Read More

Asmeret-Asefaw Berhe
Assistant Professor, Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
University of California, Merced
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is currently an Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Merced. Previously, Asmeret was a President's Postdoctoral Fellow with the Agroecology research group of Prof. Johan Six at UC Davis a... » Read More

Antony Berthelote
Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians (SAPAI)
University of Montana
Antony Berthelote is a Doctoral Student at the University of Montana in the Geoscience Department. He is a member of the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d' Oreille community and speaks both English and Spanish.

Antony grew up in Pablo, Montana and is current... » Read More

Lissett Bickford
Rice-Houston AGEP
Rice University
Lissett is a first-year graduate student in the department of bioengineering at Rice University. She received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and her M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from The University of Texas at... » Read More

Seafha Blount
Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians (SAPAI)
University of Arizona
Seafha Blount is from Humboldt County, California, and is a member of the Yurok Tribe. She is from the Frye family of Ah-Pah village.

In January 2010, she began pursuing her PhD in Natural Resources Studies with a minor in American Indian Studies at t... » Read More

Akua Bonsra
SUNY AGEP
State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook
Akua Bonsra is a second year Pharmacology student from Bowie, Maryland. Her advisor is Caroline Kisker. Her undergraduate institution was University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She loves to read, cook, swim, and go to the movies – but she’s afraid o... » Read More

Simona Bordoni
Advanced Study Program Postdoc
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
I was born and raised in Rome, Italy, where I got a Masters degree in Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1997. As part of my degree, I spent a few months in Grenoble France, at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility where I used X-ray d... » Read More

Meranda Bradley
SUNY AGEP
State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
Dr. Meranda D. Bradley received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2007. Currently she is a guest research fellow in the Oakridge Research Institute for Science and Education program at the Centers for Disease Control... » Read More

Gilbert Brown
Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians (SAPAI)
University of Arizona
Gilbert Brown is from Farmington, New Mexico and is a doctoral student at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Navajo Tribe and speaks both the English and Navajo languages. Gilbert’s focus at the University is Indigenous Education/Language,... » Read More

William Bryant
Rice-Houston AGEP
Rice University
William is a first-year student in the department of statistics at Rice University. He received his B.S. degree in mathematics at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. William is currently preparing for the Statistics A-exams scheduled for the Spri... » Read More