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*             13th Annual Fisk Student Research Symposium             *     
*                         April 7, 2011                               * 
*                   Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall,                      *
*                  Fisk University, Nashville, TN                     * 
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*         http://www.fisk.edu/Academics/Symposium2011.aspx            *
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                         P R O G R A M
 
            
           “Cultivating Scholars & Leaders One by One”

                     

8:00 a.m.		Poster Preparation

9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Posters Display									                                
			Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Dialogue with Researchers
			(Students will be available to discuss posters)

1:00 p.m.		Keynote Lecture
			George C. Hill, Ph.D.
			Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
			Nashville, TN  37208
  					
			Reception immediately following


					
 
      R E S E A R C H    L E C T U R E    P R O G R A M

                        W E L C O M E
              Princilla Evans Morris, Ph.D.
             General Chair, Research Symposium
        Interim, Executive Vice President and Provost
 

                      G R E E T I N G S
  Angela Addae, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Fabian Okeke, School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Business


                      O C C A S I O N
                   Lean'tin Bracks, Ph.D.
            Chair, Department of Arts and Languages
           School of Humanities and Social Sciences


        I N T R O D U C T I O N   O F   T H E   S P E A K E R
                     Lee E. Limbird, Ph.D.
      Dean, School of Natural Science, Mathematics and Business


             K E Y N O T E     L E C T U R E
                George C. Hill, Ph.D.
          Vanderbilt University School of Medicine


R E C O G N I T I O N    O F     S T U D E N T     P A R T I C I P A N T S
            Sajid Hussain, Ph.D. and Grazyna Walczak, Ph.D.
                 Program Co-chairs, Research Symposium


      P R E S E N T A T I O N    O F     A W A R D S
                    Hazel R. O’Leary, J.D.
                  President, Fisk University


              C L O S I N G    R E M A R K S
                  Reavis Mitchell, Ph.D.
          Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences


                      R E C E P T I O N



        B I O G R A P H Y     K E Y N O T E     S P E A K E R

                     George C. Hill, PhD
            Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

George C. Hill, Ph.D is the Levi Watkins Jr. Professor and Associate
Dean for Diversity in Medical Education, his primary appointment, as
well as a tenured Professor in the Department of Microbiology and
Immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
 He actively pursues the diversity initiatives of the institution and
has overall responsibilities for increasing and supporting broad
diversity in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  He is the
immediate past President of the National Foundation for Infectious
Diseases.

Previous to joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Hill held a Professorship in
Microbiology and served as Vice President for Sponsored Research at
Meharry Medical College, where he also served as Dean of the Graduate
School, Director of the Division of Biomedical Sciences, and Associate
Vice President for International Programs .Dr. Hill obtained his B.S
from Rutgers University, M.S. from Howard University, and PhD from NYU
and was an NIH Postdoctoral Special Research Fellow at the University
of Cambridge, Great Britain. Additionally, Dr. Hill served at Colorado
State University teaching and conducting research and established a
mentoring program for minority students.  He has also been a Fulbright
Fellow at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Hill was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences in 1998 and a Fellow of the Academy of
Microbiology in 2002. He conducts research on the electron transport
systems in African trypanosomes and has held NIH RO1 grants and
trained Ph.D. students, M.S students and post-doctoral fellows. Dr.
Hill was recognized as a “Giant in Science” by the Quality Education
for Minorities Network in 1999 for his commitment to motivating
minority students to pursue the sciences. Dr. Hill has served NIH and
NSF in many capacities, most recently as a member of the NIGMS/NIH
Advisory Council.

                      H I G H L I G H T S

        49 Poster Presentations

             5 Arts and Languages 
            10 Behavioral Sciences and Education 
             5 Business Administration 
             6 Life and Physical Sciences
            11 Mathematics and Computer Science 
            12 Graduate Studies


  6 Best Poster Awards    19 Faculty Mentors        122 Co-authors