2020

Emanie Montgomery is making an impact in her field. She was recently awarded the opportunity to participate in the 2024 HBCU Emerging Leaders Scholarship Program with Deloitte. The initiative provided a safe yet professional setting for selective interns and incoming analysts of various HBCUs to network with each other and other senior managers and partners….

Emanie Montgomery has had an illustrious undergraduate experience so far. While attending the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, she was a cheerleader, a project manager for STEM Academy and the National Society of Black Engineers, and served as the freshman class president. She was additionally crowned Miss Purple of the Tau Sigma Chapter of Omega…

Segovia was recently accepted into the Minority Health Research Training Program at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. The training program is a part of UAB’s Department of Epidemiology, which studies the patterns and control of disease. This summer she will head to Cheongju, South Korea where she’ll complete her traineeship at the Chungbuk National…

Although she began her undergraduate career as an engineering student, Aisha Faiq has since decided to pursue a business degree instead at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders School of Business.  Aisha isn’t just using her academic knowledge in class, but she’s applying it to her extracurricular activities, as well. She serves as the Senior Vice…

Segovia Lucas is going above and beyond in her research, and the scientific community is definitely taking notice.  She recently completed a summer research project at Massachusetts General Hospital which focused on using wastewater data and a mobile healthcare van to offer COVID-19 testing in medically underserved communities that had disproportionate rates of COVID-19 infections….

Segovia Lucas, OWJEF scholarship recipient c/o 2020, was recently offered a spot in a program funded by Dana-Farber/Harvard Medical School called YES for CURE (Young Empowered Scientists for ContinUed Research Engagement).  The YES for CURE program aims to give underrepresented minorities in the STEM field an opportunity to obtain research training and experience, as well…