Honors students in the DuSable Scholars Program celebrated their first graduating cohort at UIC
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The DuSable Scholars Program launched in 2021 to support students who, according to National Science Foundation figures, are often underrepresented in STEM fields. There are currently 64 students in the program, according to Roddric Sims, the program’s director.
Honors student, Osayenmwen Omozusi, is graduating with a biomedical engineering degree, said that in addition to the family-like atmosphere she found by living on campus for four years, the DuSable Scholars program gave her the tools to focus on her future.
Networking, as part of the program, opened doors for her to work in a bioinformatics lab since her first year, she said. Her long-term goal is to become a physician specializing in infectious diseases. In the short term, she will attend graduate school at UIC and work on her master’s degree in biomedical engineering.
“Not only was I able to get into research, but I want to become a doctor after this,” Omozusi said. “So, it aligned with my career path.”
Honors student Samantha Applewhite was also mentioned, graduated in December with a bachelor’s degree in integrated health studies and will be studying to be a dentist in the UIC College of Dentistry.