Sixteenth Cohort 2018
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Silvia Flores
Undergrad: Virginia Tech
PREP Mentor: Tom Ollendick, Psychology
Current Status: Research associate at Yale
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Emmanuel Thomas
Undergrad: Goerge Town University
PREP Mentor: Tom Ollendick, Behavioral sciences
Current Status: University of Rhode Island, Ph.D. Program
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Uvina Allen
Undergrad: University of north Carolina at Pembroke
PREP Mentor: Zhaomin Yang, Microbiology
Current Status: MPH Program, University of Northern Florida
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Chastyn Smith
Undergrad: University of Richmond
PREP Mentor: Ann Stevens, Microbiology
Current Status: Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Steven Cerna
Undergrad: University of Alabama
PREP Mentor: Michelle Theus, Neuroscience
Current Status: NIH MHIRT in Taiwan
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Julia Julien
Undergrad: University of The Virgin Islands
PREP Mentors: Brooks King-Casas, Pearl Chiu, Cognitive Neuroscience
Current Status: Admitted into PhD program at UAB
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Faith Carter
Undergrad: University of North Carolina, Wilmington
PREP Mentor: Alicia Pickrell, Neuroscience
Research Interest: Attended Cornell University as IMSD predoc trainee
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Shawn Kamboj
Undergrad: University of California, San Diego
PREP Mentor: Sarah Clinton, Neuroscience
Current Status: Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California Davis