When Vice President for Equity & Inclusion Alison Williams was in High School, a professor she babysat for hired her to work in his lab. She would wash glassware and perform other lab-upkeep tasks during the school year, and worked full time over the summers. “The side story to this which I didn’t really know…
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Fitzroy “Pablo” Wickham ‘21 on His Journey to Become a Doctor and Being Black in Neuroscience
Fitzroy “Pablo” Wickham ‘21, the 2021 Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship recipient, knew from a young age that he wanted to be a doctor. “People always said I was smart and would do well in the sciences,” Wickham said. “Coming from Jamaica, which is maybe traditional in our career choices, if you’re smart people say ‘Oh, you’re…
Brynn Assignon ’20 Shares Her Perspective on Research at Wes
When Brynn Assignon, BA ‘20 MA ‘21, took science classes for the first time as a young girl, she was fascinated by the subject. But in her birthplace of Togo, a country in West Africa, opportunities in science were hard to come by. “We didn’t really have that many resources,” Assignon said. “Science always seemed…
Professor Laverne Melon’s Journey from Student to Mentor in STEM
When Professor Laverne Melon first arrived at graduate school to get a PhD, the principal investigator of the lab told Melon that she would have to wait to start her Master’s project. When Melon asked why she wasn’t able to start, her PI told her that there weren’t any male mice left to use as…