The Emerging Scholars Program accepts 12 entering students each summer and offers them advising and mentoring throughout their undergraduate careers. At any given time, the program serves, on average, a total of 48 students.
We are always delighted to celebrate our students' achievements. For example:
- Jaidah Allen, a fourth-year pre-med student majoring in neuroscience, has been accepted into the Chester Summer Scholars Program at MetroHealth.
- Al Johns, a fourth-year student majoring in religious studies, will enter the 3+2 social work program at Case Western Reserve University's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences in fall 2024.
- Nia Badley, a fourth-year student majoring in pre-architecture and economics, and Al Johns (see bullet point above) have each received a 2024 Peter Witt Scholarship from CWRU. This scholarship is awarded to students in the College of Arts and Sciences whose interests are in social work, city planning or community involvement, and who have demonstrated leadership and engagement in activities on and off campus.
- Manal Alkabani, a third-year pre-med student majoring in psychology, has been accepted into the 2024 summer undergraduate research program at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Aja Leatherwood, a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences, was accepted into the Mayo Clinic Otolaryngology Undergraduate Research Program for 2024.
- Noah Medrano, a second-year student majoring in computer science, has been selected as one of Case Western Reserve's inaugural Mandel Fellows in the Experimental Humanities. The fellowship program blends humanities-oriented critical reflection with hands-on experimenting and skills development in new technologies.
- Prabin Dahal, a third-year student majoring in accounting and finance, participated in the ThinkImpact Academy of Social Enterprises, a collaboration between the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management and the Founders Academy in the United Arab Emirates. ThinkImpact offers students an opportunity to identify social or environmental issues and form teams to craft innovative solutions.
- Pelumi Obasa, a fourth-year student majoring in chemical biology, is spending his second summer as a participant in CWRU School of Medicine's Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
- Nia Badley, a fourth-year student majoring in economics and pre-architecture, was awarded a Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship at Berton, Bell, Carr Development, Inc., a local community development corporation, in 2023.