Among the student participants in NIGMS' minority programs who received degrees recently are:

• Cuyahoga Community College: Former Bridges to the Baccalaureate program participant Alana Lopez received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Ohio State University in May. She is now pursuing graduate studies in psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. For more Bridges updates from Cuyahoga, see http://www.tri-c.edu/bssp/docs/news.htm.
   
• Delaware State University: Seven MARC undergraduate students at Delaware State University received their bachelor's degrees in May and entered Ph.D. programs with scholarships this fall. Anthea Aikins received a degree in biology and is attending the University of Missouri in Columbia; Kagya Amoako received degrees in mathematics and physics with an engineering emphasis and is attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Carrie Belfield received a degree in biology and is attending Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; David Charlot received a degree in physics with a medical emphasis and is attending the University of California, San Diego; Christopher Downing received a degree in psychology and is attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg; Jeniter Hughes received a degree in biology and is attending the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; and Alicia Sherrell received a degree in biology and is attending the University of Texas in Houston.
   
• Florida International University: MARC program participants Eda-Cristina Abuchaibe and Sarah Piloto received bachelor's degrees in the biological sciences this past spring. Abuchaibe is now working as a biology teacher at a charter middle/high school in Hialeah Gardens, FL, and Piloto has entered a Ph.D. program at the University of California, Irvine. RISE participant Aileen Andreau received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and plans to teach high school chemistry.
   
• Morehouse School of Medicine: MBRS participants Omoryri Osula and Cara Person received bachelor's degrees in biology in May. Osula is pursuing a master's degree in microbiology at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and Person is currently participating in an exchange program in South America. Knatokie Ford and Monica Lindsey received master's degrees in chemistry. Ford is pursuing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and Lindsey is pursuing a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Keri Norris received an M.P.H. degree in international health and is pursing a Ph.D. in the same field at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Barbara Jacob-Motley received a Ph.D. in microbiology and Rosalie Odom received a Ph.D. in pharmacology. Jacob-Motley is performing postdoctoral research at Emory University and at the Veteran's Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Odom is working as a science librarian at the Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center. Stacey Tate, who received a medical degree this past spring, is completing her Ph.D.