In The News
Former UMBC STEM BUILD student intern receives Goldwater Scholarship
Samuel Barnett, a student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who participated as a community college intern in the BUILD a Bridge to STEM program in 2023, received the university’s Goldwater Scholarship.
The BUILD a Bridge to STEM summer internship program is funded through UMBC’s STEM BUILD program and supports undergraduates at community colleges. Barnet transferred to UMBC from Howard Community College.
Read more at the UMBC website.
SF BUILD’s Leticia Márquez-Magaña named 2023 AAAS Fellow
By Kanaga Rajan at SF State News
For San Francisco State University Professor of Biology Leticia Márquez-Magaña, it’s all about community. Her health equity research, educational efforts and prominence as a public figure in the scientific community — none of it’s about her at this stage in her career.
“It’s all about the little Leticias. They need to see what is possible in order to be what they usually don’t see,” she explained. This community mentality was instilled in her at a young age by her family and Mexican culture.
Today, Márquez-Magaña has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. She is among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators spanning 23 categories who are being honored for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements throughout their careers.
Read the whole story at the SF State News website.
UCSF CTSI recognizes SF BUILD’s Kelechi Uwaezuoke
By Kelechi Uwaezuoke, DrPH, MPH
Kelechi Uwaezuoke, DrPH, MPH, was one of four leaders selected to be featured for the University of California, San Francisco’s (UCSF) Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) celebration of Black History Month.
Uwaezuoke is SF BUILD’s Assistant Director for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnerships.
This spotlight recognizes and amplifies the work of those at UCSF’s research community. CTSI’s mission is to improve patient and community health through clinical and translational research by developing broad coalitions and partnerships at the local, regional and national levels to enable a transformation of the research environment.
Uwaezuoke was selected to be featured and interviewed as this year’s community partner. She shared insight on the work of SF BUILD, the importance of mentorship and community, and offered key advice for researchers at UCSF and beyond.
Watch the interview on YouTube.
For more information on CTSI, visit their website.
The Diversity Program Consortium Coordination and Evaluation Center at UCLA is supported by Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health / National Institutes of General Medical Sciences under award number U54GM119024.
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