e-Program for the 2022 Symposium may be accessed using this link (***)
The Bridge to the Ph.D. Annual Symposium is an opportunity for current and past Bridge scholars to present the findings of their research to a larger audience on Columbia University’s Morningside campus. This annual event provides an open forum for Bridge scholars, faculty, and their guests to discuss research topics in astronomy, the biological sciences, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, engineering, physics, psychology, economics and diversity in STEM disciplines. In additional to the current and past Bridge scholars’ oral presentations, the symposium includes remarks from Columbia University's administrators and faculty, invited guest speakers and a graduation ceremony for the second years.
2022 Symposium
e-Program for the 2022 Symposium may be accessed using this link (***)
Thursday, June 16, 2022
10:30am-4pm
Columbia University
Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR), Davis Auditorium
2019 Symposium
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Columbia University
Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR), Davis Auditorium
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Slide 1: Bridge to the Ph.D. Program in STEM: Cohorts 10 and 11
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Slide 2: Mario Rivera, Cohort 10, Chemistry
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Slide 3: Sania Khalid, Cohort 10, Neuroscience
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Slide 4: Shifra Mandel, Cohort 11, Astronomy
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Slide 5: Julie Kiss, Cohort 11, Biological Sciences
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Slide 6: Jay Holder, Cohort 11, Psychology
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Slide 7: Iris Ponce, Cohort 11, Physics
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Slide 8: Chiza Mwinde, Cohort 11, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 9: Iris Lan, Cohort 10, Astronomy
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Slide 10: Derick González-Acevedo, Cohort 11, Physics
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Slide 11: Rafael Colon, Cohort 10, Astronomy
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Slide 12: Rayna Rampalli, Cohort 11, Astronomy
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Slide 13: Oral Presentation Awards: Derick González-Acevedo and Rayna Rampalli, Cohort 11
2018 Opening Ceremonies
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Columbia University
Pulitzer Hall
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Slide 1: Ten Years of the Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 2: Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion and Kwame Osei-Sarfo, Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 3: Geraldine Downey, Professor, Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Justice at Columbia University
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Slide 4: Bridge Alumnae: Raven Diacou, Cohort 3, Neuroscience and Juliana Agudelo, Cohort 4, Chemistry
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Slide 5: Marcel Agüeros, Founding Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 6: Recognition of Elliot Gewirtz for his generous support of the Bridge Program
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Slide 7: Gifts for the Friends of the Bridge Program: Chloë Bulinski, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Jeremy Dodd, Professor, Department of Physics
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Slide 8: Jeremy Dodd, Professor, Department of Physics and Nicholas Hunt-Walker, Cohort 2, Astronomy
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Slide 9: Elizabeth Rodriguez, Cohort 1, Psychology, Geraldine Downey, Marcel Agüeros, and Dennis Mitchell
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Slide 10: Marcel Agüeros with his son, Camilo
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Slide 11: Past and Present Bridge Scholars: Jorge Cortés, Cohort 9; Neno Fuller, Cohort 8; Kassidy Lundy, Cohort 9; and Huda Qureshi, Cohort 9
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Slide 12: A Round Table Discussion with Three "Generations" of Bridge scholars: Lorenzo Sironi, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy; Shanece Esdaille, Cohort 10; Rafael Colón, Cohort 10; Carina Fish, Cohort 7; and Kursti DeLello, Cohort 9
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Slide 13: Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion and Nikisha Alcindor, Interim Academic Director, School of Professional Studies
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Slide 14: Jacqueline van Gorkom, Professor, Department of Astronomy and her former Bridge scholar, Ximena Fernández, Cohort 1
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Slide 15: Opening Ceremony Conversations
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Slide 16: Reuniting of Previous Cohorts: Claribel Nuñez, Cohort 3; Juliana Agudelo, Cohort 4; Erick Andrade, Cohort 4; John Pamplin II, Cohort 3, and Raven Diacou, Cohort 3
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Slide 17: Jacqueline van Gorkom with the alumni of Cohort 6, David James and Rhondale "Ron" Tso
2018 Symposium
Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1, 2018
Columbia University
Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research (CEPSR), Davis Auditorium
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Slide 1: The Graduating Class of 2018: Kassidy Lundy, Shane Colombo, Kursti DeLello, Jorge Cortés, María Hernández Limón, Huda Qureshi
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Slide 2: Marcel Agüeros, Founding Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 3: Carlos Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities
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Slide 4: Cohorts 9 and 10 of the Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 5: Kwame Osei-Sarfo, Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 6: Michael Purdy, Executive Vice President of Research and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 7: Oral Presentations Awards: Kursti DeLello, Cohort 9; María Hernández Limón, Cohort 9; Shanece Esdaille, Cohort 10; Raven Diacou, Cohort 3; and Richard “Rich” Lopez, Cohort 2
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Slide 8: Kassidy Lundy, Cohort 9, Biological Sciences
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Slide 9: Shane Colombo, Cohort 9, Psychology
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Slide 10: Kursti DeLello, Cohort 9, Physics
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Slide 11: Questions from the audience: Nicholas Hunt-Walker, Cohort 2
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Slide 12: Rafael Colón, Cohort 10, Astronomy
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Slide 13: María Hernández Limón, Cohort 9, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 14: Jorge Cortés, Cohort 9, Astronomy
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Slide 15: Alumni/ae Panel on Being an Underrepresented Minority in Graduate School: Carina Fish, Cohort 7; Christopher Medina-Kirchner, Cohort 8; Steven Mohammed, Cohort 4; and Claribel Nuñez, Cohort 3. Moderated by Robyn Sanderson, Associate Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program, 2015-2017
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Slide 16: Sania Khalid, Cohort 10, Neuroscience
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Slide 17: Iris Lan, Cohort 10, Astronomy
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Slide 18: "Inside Graduate Admissions: What Ph.D.-Bound Students Need to Know" by Julie Posselt, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
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Slide 19: Some coffee and chatter in between presentations
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Slide 20: Huda Qureshi, Cohort 9, Applied Physics
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Slide 21: Mario Rivera, Cohort 10, Chemistry
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Slide 22: Questions from the audience: Jeremy Dodd, Professor, Department of Physics
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Slide 23: John Shin, Cohort 10, Physics
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Slide 24: Shanece Esdaille, Cohort 10, Mechanical Engineering
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Slide 25: Alumni/ae Panel on Walking the Long Road to a STEM Ph.D.: Elizabeth Rodriguez, Cohort 1; Khatera Rahmani, Cohort 2; Richard “Rich” Lopez, Cohort 2; and Shaness Grenald, Cohort 2. Moderated by Marcel Agüeros, Founding Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 26: Questions from the audience: María Hernández Limón, Cohort 9
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Slide 27: Brian Colar, Cohort 3, Psychology
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Slide 28: Raven Diacou, Cohort 3, Neuroscience
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Slide 29: Carina Fish, Cohort 7, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 30: More symposium chatter in between presentations
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Slide 31: Carlos Garcia, Cohort 4, Chemistry
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Slide 32: Shaness Grenald, Cohort 2, Psychology
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Slide 33: Richard "Rich" Lopez, Cohort 2, Psychology
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Slide 34: Nicholas Hunt-Walker, Cohort 2, Astronomy
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Slide 35: Claribel Nuñez, Cohort 3, Chemistry
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Slide 36: John Pamplin II, Cohort 3, Psychology
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Slide 37: Questions from the audience
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Slide 38: Khatera Rahmani, Cohort 2, Biological Sciences
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Slide 39: Rhondale "Ron" Tso, Cohort 6, Physics
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Slide 40: Questions from the audience: Lorenzo Sironi, Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 41: Nitza Santiago-Figueroa, Cohort 1, Astronomy
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Slide 42: Deivid Ribeiro, Cohort 7, Physics
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Slide 43: Elizabeth Rodriguez, Cohort 1, Psychology
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Slide 44: Ten Years of Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
2017 Symposium
Monday, June 12, 2017
Columbia University
Learner Hall, Satow Room
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Slide 1: Past and Present Bridge to the Ph.D. Program Scholars
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Slide 2: Cohort 8: Neno Fuller, Physics; Christopher Medina-Kirchner, Psychology; and Jazmine-Saskya Joseph-Chowdhury, Biological Sciences
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Slide 3: Cohort 9: Jorge Cortés, Astronomy; Shane Colombo, Psychology; Kassidy Lundy, Biological Sciences; Huda Qureshi, Applied Physics; Kursti DeLello, Physics; and María Hernández Limón, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 4: Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion
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Slide 5: Marcel Agüeros, Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program and Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 6: Carlos Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities
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Slide 7: Dennis Mitchell, Neno Fuller, and Carlos Alonso
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Slide 8: Dennis Mitchell, Jazmine-Saskya Joseph-Chowdhury, and Carlos Alonso
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Slide 9: Dennis Mitchell, Christopher Medina-Kirchner, and Carlos Alonso
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Slide 10: Dennis Mitchell, Vanessa Mondol (Cohort 1), and Carlos Alonso
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Slide 11: Michael Purdy, Executive Vice President for Research and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 12: Somdeb Mitra, Assistant Director for Life Sciences, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 13: María Hernández Limón, Cohort 9, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 14: Shane Colombo, Cohort 9, Psychology
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Slide 15: Kassidy Lundy, Cohort 9, Biological Sciences
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Slide 16: Engaging presentations focusing on astronomy, the biological sciences, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, physics, and psychology
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Slide 17: Jorge Cortés, Cohort 9, Astronomy
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Slide 18: Vanessa Mondol, Cohort 1, Chemistry
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Slide 19: Neno Fuller, Cohort 8, Physics
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Slide 20: Huda Qureshi, Cohort 9, Applied Physics
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Slide 21: Previous Bridge Scholars: Erick Andrade, Cohort 2; Deivid Ribeiro, Cohort 7; Vanessa Mondol, Cohort 1; Ximena Fernádez, Cohort 1; and Juliana Agudelo, Cohort 4
2016 Symposium
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Columbia University
Learner Hall, Satow Room
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Slide 1: Bridge to the Ph.D. Program: Cohorts 7 and 8
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Slide 2: Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion
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Slide 3: Carlos Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities
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Slide 4: Marcel Agüeros, Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program and Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
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Slide 5: Carlos Alonso, Blanche Fields, and Dennis Mitchell
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Slide 6: Carlos Alonso, Amanda Buch, and Dennis Mitchell
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Slide 7: Carlos Alonso, Deivid Ribeiro, and Dennis Mitchell
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Slide 8: Carlos Alonso, Carina Fish, and Dennis Mitchell
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Slide 9: Somdeb Mitra, Assistant Director for Life Sciences, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 10: Robyn Sanderson, Assistant Director for Physical Sciences, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
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Slide 11: Cohort 7: Deivid Ribeiro, Physics; Blanche Fields, Biological Sciences; Carina Fish, Earth and Environmental Sciences; and Amanda Buch, Biomedical Engineering
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Slide 12: Carina Fish, Cohort 7, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Slide 13: Juliana Agudelo, Cohort 4, Chemistry
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Slide 14: Symposium Chat: Erick Andrade, Cohort 4; Christopher Medina-Kirchner, Cohort 8; Steven Mohammed, Cohort 4; Ximena Fernádez, Cohort 1; and Neno Fuller, Cohort 8
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Slide 15: Blanche Fields, Cohort 7, Biological Sciences
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Slide 16: Amanda Buch, Cohort 7, Biomedical Engineering
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Slide 17: Neno Fuller, Cohort 8, Physics
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Slide 18: Jazmine-Saskya Joseph-Chowdhury, Cohort 8, Biological Sciences
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Slide 19: Corey Perez, Cohort 3, Chemistry
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Slide 20: Deivid Ribeiro, Cohort 7, Physics
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Slide 21: Cohort 4: Steven Mohammed, Astronomy; Erick Andrade, Physcis; and Juliana Agudelo, Chemistry with Summer Ash, Assistant Director, Bridge to the Ph.D. Program
