Anna Kruyer is a CBL Scholar and a Natural Sciences major, class of 2008 in the Fordham College at Lincoln Center. She is extremely interested in neuroscience and mental processes and would love to conduct research in this field.  She intends to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience.  She currently works in with Dr. Jason Morris’ Lab where she is studying a specific genetic mutation in the fruit fly that causes growth and other defects.

Brittany Kwait is an undergraduate and CBL Scholar at the Rose Hill campus with intentions to graduate in May 2007. At that time, she will receive both a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in American Studies. Her past research has exposed her to many areas of computing, including machine learning, robotics, databases, and computer architecture. Currently she is collaborating with Dr. Kelly Shaw of the University of Richmond on a project that, if successful, will ultimately eliminate the cache-to-cache transfers of data that occur in large commercial workloads. This work is an extension of her summer position as a CRA-W Distributed Mentoring Project awardee. Other honors include being named an alternate for the 2006 NSEP and a place on ACM's Student Services Committee.  After graduation, Brittany hopes her Fulbright proposal will be granted and then, or instead, beginning a career in industry or with the U.S. Government. Brittany keeps busy by running, singing in the Fordham Concert Choir, volunteering, and journeying the streets of New York seeking the splendiferous slice.

Danielle O’Connor is a member of the Fordham College at Rose Hill class of 2008 and a CBL Scholar.  She is pursuing her B.S. in Chemistry.  Her current research project involves the synthesis of acyclic amidinium salts from secondary amines.  This project involves developing a simple, high yield reaction for the synthesis of these salts due to their recent use as reaction catalysts.  She is working under the supervision of Dr. Shahrokh Saba of the Department of Chemistry at Rose Hill.  After graduation, she hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

Michelle Yee is a CBL scholar to graduate with the class of 2007. As a math major, she performed research in mathematical modeling during summer of 2005 with Dr. Frederick Marotto, analyzing a hypothetical economic system of equations and determining the implications of its behavior. Also pursuing a computer science minor, she worked with Dr. Damian Lyons during summer of 2006 in the Robotics Lab, modifying and configuring a robot intended for use in situations such as urban rescue. This involved mounting navigation-related devices to an existing platform and designing a new circuit board. She is currently exploring further areas of graphic, web, and animation design while working toward the field of industrial design engineering.

Lauren Buro is a CBL Fellow currently working on her PhD in molecular biology at the Rose Hill Campus in Dr. Henriksen's lab.  Her project examines histone methylation patterns at interferon gamma inducible loci. She received her BS from Binghamton University, and her MS from Fordham University.  After graduation she plans to pursue a post-doctoral position, work in a lab, and then possibly integrate her science background at a pharmaceutical or biotech company.

Evelyn D. Fetridge is a CBL Fellow and third year PhD student in the Biology Department studying the community dynamics of bees in suburban ecosystems.  Her PhD advisor is insect ecologist, Dr. Gail Langellotto.  Evelyn earned her BA in Environmental Biology at Columbia University.  While at Fordham, she has received an honorable mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Fordham University’s Matteo Ricci Summer Fellowship.  After graduation to pursue a post-doctoral fellowship to continue her work on bees, and following that, to stay in academia as a professor. 

Lucy Rubino is a third year master’s degree student and CBL Fellow in Biology (Ecology focus).  She received her BA in Biology from Drew University in Madison, NJ. Her current research focuses on the relative effects of age, stage and size on plant responses to nutrient limitation. She is particularly interested in the processes of leaf senescence and plant development and how nutrient availability and insect herbivory can affect these basic plant processes. Lucy works in the Lewis lab.  After graduation she plans to work in either education, government, agriculture, academic research or industry for a few years and then to continue her education by pursuing a PhD. in a lab that focuses on the molecular and chemical aspects of plant-insect interactions. At Drew University she was Phi Beta Kappa and won the Peter Jennings Prize in Botany.  She is a member of the Biological Honor Society and the Ecological Society of America.

Shaili Shah is one of the CBL Fellows pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Biological Sciences at Rose Hill. Her undergraduate experience at the University of Michigan narrowed her interest in cell and molecular biology to cellular signal transduction. Currently, as a second year graduate student, she is studying the Jak/STAT pathway and thereby modification of chromatin structure in Dr. Henriksen’s lab. After she receives her degree, she intends on pursuing a post-doctoral position and eventually applying for a tenure track professorship.

Dr. Melissa A. Henriksen is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Rose Hill.  She graduated with a BS in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross and earned her PhD in Biological Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Her post-doctoral research brought her to the laboratory of Dr. James E. Darnell at The Rockefeller University where the STAT signal transduction pathway was discovered and is currently studied. She spent nearly a decade there doing research on both Drosophila and human STATs as a Research Associate and then a Research Assistant Professor.  Wanting to teach and interact with undergraduates and graduate students, Dr. Henriksen accepted a position at Fordham University in 2005.  Her laboratory composed of graduate, undergraduate and high school students, investigates transcription and epigenetic control mechanisms in STAT signaling.  The lab also investigates cancer stem cells in neuroblastoma in collaboration with Dr. Ross’ lab.