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• 2023 Speakers Series
• 2023 Research Projects

Summer Science Research 2023 Program Schedule

2023 Speakers Series

Sheila Graham, PhD

Dr. Sheila Graham (she/her/ella) is a queer, Black-Latina, daughter of Costa Rican immigrants, wife, mother, and the founder/owner of Liberate Healing Center. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Black Studies from Amherst College (2003) and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University (2010).  A licensed psychologist, Dr. Graham worked primarily in university counseling centers providing clinical services to college student populations and cultural awareness training to other clinicians before launching a thriving private practice.  Dr. Graham is passionate about all forms of social justice and is committed to dismantling oppressive systems that dehumanize those who are oppressed, as well as those who are privileged by them. She is especially interested in issues of race, social class, sexual orientation, disability and immigration. Her career has focused largely on the impact of oppression on the mental health of marginalized communities and healing practices that move beyond adjusting to maladaptive systems and encourage liberation. Dr. Graham and her wife reside in Baltimore City, where they work diligently to raise their two children to be socially conscious members of society.

Kimberly Jacoby-Morris, PhD

Dr. Kimberly J. Jacoby Morris is the STEM Program Coordinator for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, in Arlington, VA. Dr. Jacoby is responsible for managing activities that improve scientific literacy among students, educators and the public to foster a highly skilled workforce. Her leadership ensures that education funding opportunities and community-based program initiatives promote the engagement of diverse stakeholders in understanding and contributing to technological advancements. Programs that contribute directly to this effort are the STEM Education and Outreach Program, the ASSURE Program, the Summer Faculty Fellowship Program and the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Dr. Jacoby enjoys developing creative solutions to address challenges in education. 

Prior to this position Dr. Jacoby was an Education Specialist in the Education and Community Involvement Branch at the. National Human Genome Research Institute which is a part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. As an Education Specialist she was responsible for managing STEM education and outreach programs, developing educational resources and coordinating digital assets. Her passion for education was inspired by her extensive teaching experience during graduate school and her post-graduate guest lecturer opportunities at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø. 

Before transitioning full-time to the field of education outreach, Dr. Jacoby completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the late Dr. George Harold Patterson at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering which is a part of the National Institutes of Health. While working with Dr. Patterson, Dr. Jacoby developed novel near-IR fluorescent probes and extended the photoswitchable FRET technique to democratize costly scientific experiments. Together they authored a book chapter and presented several scientific posters. 

EDUCATION

2016 Ph.D. Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2010 B.A. Chemistry, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

CAREER CHRONOLOGY

1.     2016 – 2017 Interim Laboratory Lecturer, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, PA

2.     2016 – 2017 Adjunct Professor, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

3.     2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

4.     2019 - 2021- Education Specialist, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

5.     2021 - present â€“ STEM Program Coordinator, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA

Huong Giang Nguyen, PhD

Huong Giang Nguyen is a Research Chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She earned her BS in Chemistry and Biology from the University of South Carolina and her PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University. She joined NIST as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Measurement Science Division in 2015 and became a staff in the Chemical Sciences Division at NIST in 2018.

She is the project lead at the Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing, where she is working on creating reference data and establishing protocols for gas adsorption measurements, which provide information on the gas uptake capability of a material for applications in carbon dioxide capture, methane and hydrogen gas storage, gas separation, and catalysis. Her focus is on gravimetric instruments and binary gas sorption instruments. Currently she’s also interested in materials for direct air capture of carbon dioxide.

She is chair of the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) technical working area 39, which focuses on solid sorbents. She was awarded the 2022 NIST Bronze Medal Award for her significant contribution to the determination of high-pressure reference isotherms of nanoscale porous adsorbents.

Summer 2023 Research Projects

Anthropology Research Projects

Biology Research Projects

Chemistry Research Projects

Computer Science Research Projects

Geology Research Projects

Mathematics Research Projects

Physics Research Projects

Psychology Research Projects