Alumni News --- Click Here to view alumni news from previous years
Students who go through the SEED program often receive media coverage for their future accomplishments. Here is a selection of some of the alumni's accomplishments:
Douglas Sprowl: Douglas was recently awarded the Abe Lincoln - Kiwanis Scholarship Award Recipient (3rd place). Click to read article posted at IndyStar.COM.
Douglas is featured on the first picture of the photo gallery from the Indianapolis Star.
Angela Ma: Angela became a 2010 Intel Science Talent Search Regional Finalist
http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/2010/semifinalists
Download the 2010 Semifinalist Booklet (includes project titles and listing by State)
Angela also became a 2009 Siemens Competition Math, Science & Technology Regional Finalist
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/pool/resources_for/nd_alert_final.pdf
click to view the 2009 Siemens Competition Regional Finalist announcement.
Jenaya Hooks: Jenaya won the First Place award at the Biotechnology Conference sponsored by Eli Lilly & Co.
The prize came with a $1000 monetary award (http://www.nobccheindianapolis.org/precollege.html )
She was received an Acknowledgement for her abstract submission to the Association of Minority
Health Professions Schools, Inc - AMHPS. Click for conference program, page 17
Jenaya is also quoted on this article from the Indy Star (Click to view)
Scott Maitland: Scot won a First Place award at the 2009 annual IUSM and Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Scientific Poster Session.
(IUSM= Indiana University School of Medicine). http://scope.medicine.iu.edu/archives/2009/Vol-13-No-33.htm#4
William Sprowl: William was listed as a co-author collaborator in research project his lab team did with Dr. Christoph Naumann at
the IUPUI School of Science. His research, Tuning Cellular Mechano-Response Using Biomembrane-Mimicking
is hosted at the The NASA Astrophysics Data System through Harvard University - http://ads.harvard.edu/
Click to view article abstract *his name appears in his original Brazilian name of 'Guilherme Sprowl'
His research findings were presented at the Biophysical Society 53RD Annual Meeting *click to view program, page 109
in Boston on March 3, 2009
NASA Most Outstanding Intern. In the Summer of 2009 William participated in NASA'S Glenn Research Center in Cleveland,
earning the Most Outstanding Intern award at the end of the summer.
http://www.bigpicture.org/2009/06/indy-met-student-selected-for-nasa-internship/
Conference Panelist: William was a panelist at the University of Indianapolis conference on Better Schools, November 16, 2009
http://cell.uindy.edu/docs/conference/2009/ConferenceAgenda09.pdf
David Yang: David is now at Harvard University, Class of 2013. In 2009 he became a Siemens Science Regional Finalist, team category
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/pool/documents/nd_winners_release.pdf
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/pool/siemens_competition/octsemifinalist_website_listing_2009.pdf