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1) Chey Harris (Cohort 1 Scholar)
Bediako, S. & Harris, C. (2017). Communalism moderates the association between racial centrality and emergency department use for sickle cell disease pain. Journal of Black Psychology,43(1), 1-10.

2) Oluwatobi Samagbeyi (Cohort 1 Scholar)
J, Goldman E, Taraji H, Samagbeyi O, Assari S, Sheikhattari P. (2023) Peer mentoring for smoking cessation in public housing: A mixed-methods study. . Front Public Health. 5;10:1052313.

3) Markea Carter, Deshawn Collington, and Aliyah Tolliver (Cohort 1 Scholar)
Collington D, Carter M, Tolliver A, and Turner-Musa J. (2019) Sexual Assault Among College Students Attending a Historically Black College/University (HBCU). American Journal of Undergraduate Research. 15:37-45.

4) Arsene Noe (Cohort 2 Scholar)
Denaro F, Gabriel M, Noe A, Nyaga S. (2018) Developing Tools for STEM Education: The Foldscope, a Very Inexpensive Monocular Microscope for Biological Research. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 24(S1):1374-1375.

5) Dymon Walker (Cohort 2 Scholar)
Walker D, Gharaie Fathabad S, Tabatabai B, Jafar S, and Sitther V. (2019) Microcystin Levels in Selected Cyanobacteria Exposed to Varying Salinity. Journal of Water Resource and Protection. 11:395-403

Fathabad, SG, Tabatabai, B, Walker, D, Chen, H, Lu, J, Aslan, K, Uddin, J, Ghann, W, & Sitther, V. (2020) Impact of Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles on Fremyella diplosiphon Transesterified Lipids and Fatty Acid Methyl Esters. ACS Omega. 5 (21), 12166-12173.

6) Kayla Griffin (Cohort 3 Scholar)
Campbell BK, Le T, Yip D, Griffin KB, Gubner NR, and Guydish JR. (2019) Sex Differences in Graphic Warning Label Ratings by Addictions Clients. Tob Regul Sci. 5(1):3-14.

7) Autumn Taylor, Amanda Nweke, Venisha Vincent and Marvelous Oke (Cohort 3 Scholar)
Taylor A, Nweke A, Vincent V, Oke M, Kulkarni P, Ferris CF. (2023) Chronic exposure to inhaled vaporized cannabis high in Δ9-THC alters brain structure in adult female mice. Front Neurosci. 6;17:1139309.

8) Osaretin Aimufua (Cohort 4 Scholar)
Klee, SM, Sinn, JP, Finley, M, Allman, EL, Smith, PB, Aimufua, O, Sitther, V, Lehman, BL, Krawczyk, T, Peter, KA, & others. (2019) Erwinia amylovora auxotrophic mutant exometabolomics and virulence on apples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(15), e00935-19.

9) Layschel Kemp (Cohort 5 Scholar)
Turner-Musa, J, Ajayi, O, & Kemp, L. (2020) Examining Social Determinants of Health, Stigma, and COVID-19 Disparities. Healthcare. 8(2), 168.