Headed To Harvard: LIU bio students to showcase research at Harvard
Two LIU Brooklyn biology majors have earned a major science honor: Martha Lewis and Kimaada Allete, both from East Flatbush, have been selected to present their work at the New England Science Symposium on March 2.
The prestigious symposium, which provides a forum for college students to share their biomedical and health-related research through oral and poster presentations, will take place at Harvard Medical School.
Lewis and Allette are members of LIU Brooklyn’s Minority Biomedical Research Support-Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (MBRS/RISE) program, which promotes minority participation in the sciences.
“I’ve done a lot of presentations in different places but this means a lot, because it’s Harvard,” said Martha Lewis, 27, who will graduate in May with a B.S. in biology and a minor in chemistry. Last April, she presented at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) at the group’s annual meeting in San Diego.