Lakeshia J. Taite
6100 Main street, ms-142,
Houston, TX 77005 ¨
PHONE: (713) 348-3153 ¨
EMAIL: ljtaite@rice.EDU
¨ EDUCATION
· B.S.
Chemical Engineering · Currently
Attending Rice University
University of Alabama Houston, TX
Tuscaloosa, AL Ph.D.
Student, Department of Bioengineering
Project:
Nitric oxide releasing materials for the prevention of thrombosis and
Restenosis.
¨ RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
n
Poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymers for
Sustained Delivery of Nitric Oxide
·
Houston Society
for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (HSEMB) 2003
·
Encouraging
Minority Engineers/Scientists to Reach for Graduate Education (EMERGE) Workshop
2003
·
Biomedical Engineering
Society (BMES) Fall Meeting 2003
¨ WORK EXPERIENCE
n
Remediation of
Soil and Ground Water 2000
·
U.S. Department of
Energy, Savannah River Site – Aiken, South Carolina
n
Developing Pressure Profiles In CO2
Disposal Wells 2000
·
Research
Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alabama
n
Computational Chemistry to Predict
Theoretical Linear Free Energy Relationships in Aqueous
Biphasic
Systems/Room Temperature Ionic Liquids 1999-2000
·
Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry,
University of Alabama
n
Compiling and Establishing a Database of
Hofmeister Effects of Salts from Literature Sources 1998
·
Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry,
University of Alabama
¨ ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS
n Integrative
Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Fellow
Rice
University 2003
n
1st Place Winner, Oral
Presentation of Technology and Engineering Research 2003
EMERGE
Workshop 2003 – Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, Georgia
n Participant,
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate 2001-2003
Rice
University
n U.S.
Department of Energy Fellow 2000
Savannah
River Site - Aiken, South Carolina
n NASA
Space Grant Scholar 1999-2000
Alabama Space Grant Consortium
n Eastman
Scholar 1998-2000
Eastman
Chemical Company
n Computer-
Based Honor’s Fellow 1997-2000
The University of Alabama