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Dedicated
to the mission of PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP, the UMBC Peer
Mentors and Peer Mentors-in-Training are available to guide
UMBC's graduate students through graduate student life.
- ROBERT
ALEXANDER
· Doctoral student, Dept. of Public Policy (Advisor:
N. Miller)
· Intern, National Institutes of Health, National
Eye Institute
· Masters of Public Health, Health Systems &
Policy, Univ. of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
· B.S., Public Health, minor - Biology, Rutgers
University.
RESEARCH:
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) policies
Focus: Barriers to enacting legalization and regulations
of such policies. The public policy implications of the
work include: identification of differences in publicly
funded research with information preferences of stakeholders,
efficient allocation of resources for CAM, and the elimination
of socio-economic and ethical concerns regarding economic
misconduct (e.g. use of public dollars).
S. SONIA ARTEAGA
· Doctoral Student, Community and Behavioral Medicine
Program, Department of Psychology (Advisor: C. DiClemente)
· M.A., Psychology, UMBC
· B.A., Psychology, Spanish (minor, International
Studies), Truman State University.
RESEARCH:
Factors that impact physical activity among urban African
American teens, mental health legislation and the Latino
community, research and policy initiatives on health promotion
and disease prevention among urban ethnic minority communities,
individual and environmental factors that affect engagement
in physical activity among urban, low-income African American
women.
- CURTIS
DURHAM
· Doctoral Student, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
(Advisor: C. Garvie)
· B.A. Chemistry, Lincoln University
RESEARCH:
Biophysical and X-ray chrystallographic techniques for
solving protein structures, assembly and structure of the
RFX complex, part of the Major Histocompatibility Complex
Class II (MHCII) molecules, RFXB and RFXAP.
SYLVESTER MOSLEY
· Doctoral student, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
(Advisor: K. Seley)
· M.S. in Organic Chemistry, Georgia Tech,
· B.S. in Chemistry from Tuskegee University.
RESEARCH:
Medicinal/Synthetic Bioorganic Chemistry; synthesis
of modified known nucleosides and nucleotides using modern
synthetic techniques, for use as medicinal agents, and Chemotherapeutic
emphasis in the areas of anticancer, antiviral and parasitic
targets.
ELIAS NAWD 
· Masters student, Information Systems (Advisor:
A. Gangopadhyay)
· B.S. Psychology, UMBC
RESEARCH:
Bioinformatics, databases, information transport and
health systems
- VERA
ROQUEMORE
· Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology
(Advisor: T. Robinson)
· M.A., Clinical Psychology, UMBC
· B.A., Biology, Psychology, University of Delaware
RESEARCH
: Jealous behavior in relationships, Characterizations
of jealousy using evolutionary theory, emotional infidelity
triggers, adult attachment and cultural background factors
pertaining to formats of reaction.
SHAHZA SOMERVILLE
· Doctoral Candidate, Neural and Cognitive Sciences
(Advisor: R. Robert)
· B.S. Biology, Morgan State University
RESEARCH:
Mitochondrial number and schizophrenia, comparisons
mitochondria in the putamen and the caudate of normal controls
and patients with schizophrenia, energy demands on the striatum,
reactions to antipsychotic drugs, electron microscopy in
postmortem tissue
- In
Loving Memory of Jessica (1977-2004)
JESSICA
SOTO-PEREZ 
· Doctoral Student, Department of Chemical and
Biochemical Engineering (Advisor: D. Frey)
· P.B. Certificate in Biochemical Regulatory Engineering,
UMBC,
· B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto
Rico, Mayagüez
RESEARCH:
Bioseparations and chromatography, separation and purification
of biopolymers, novel methods for chromatofocusing, design
and optimization of ion-exchange processes, Behavior of
the Inadvertent pH transients formed by a salt gradient
in the ion-exchange chromatography of proteins.
ALISHA SPARKS 
· Masters student, Mathematics Education
· Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT)
· B.S., Mathematics, Vorhees College
FOCUS:
Women and Information Technology, K-12 issues
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