Honor Society® member
Tshibambe N. Tshimbombu Sr.
National Institute of Health Researcher at University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham
- Dartmouth College
- Neuroscience
- Class of 2016
- Snellville, GA
Member since June 2015
Education
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Dartmouth College
Neuroscience
2014 – 2016
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Georgia Perimeter College
Associate of Science in Chemistry
2012 – 2014
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Lovanium School of medicine
MD
2008 – 2010
Honors and awards
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2014 ENLISTEM (Educate, Nurture Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Scholar
ENLISTEM is a program that provides scholarships to educate students and nurture leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The goal is to remove financial barriers for students in the STEM field.
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Outstanding Student of the Semester awards- Mathematics Pre-calculus (Spring 2012), General Chemistry I (Fall 2012), General Chemistry II (Spring 2013), Organic Chemistry 1 (Fall 2013)
Student of the semester at Georgia Perimeter College honors a student who has gone beyond and above the expectations in a particular class.
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STEM Student Scholar of Excellence award
This award honors a student who, besides holding a 3.9 GPA, has maintained A- in each class throughout the year.
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Physical Sciences Student of the year
This award honors the best Physical Science major (Chemistry (AS), Geology (AS) or Physics (AS)) on campus. Someone with a GPA above 3.9 and with more than two extracurricular activities.
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Service Excellence award
This award honors and recognizes an individual student that has initiated and/or actively engaged in a community service project(s). The project may be a single event or a series of activities.
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President’s Award
This award recognizes an individual student that, although they may necessarily hold a visible, established leadership position on campus, nonetheless has actively demonstrated attributes of a leader through his/her actions and character.
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Grady Memorial Hospital volunteer of the month
Because of my hard work, commitment, and dedication during the volunteering service I was featured in the Inside Grady Journal as the Volunteer of the month in August 2014
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Dartmouth Citation in Cognitive neuroscience
Citations are rarely awarded at Dartmouth and constitute a special academic distinction. It honors undergraduates who have made particularly favorable impressions on members of the faculty because of their unusual talents, dependability, and initiative.
Goals and interests
- Career goal
I want to become a Neurosurgeon
- Graduate school interests
I am interested in deeply understanding neurodevelopment disorders, particularly schizophrenia. My goal is to scrutinize the relationship between intrinsic connectivity distribution and the NMDA hypofunction and explore different possibilities of treating schizoprenia.
My utmost desire is to be accepted in the MD/PhD (MSTP) program at University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham.
- Outside the classroom
Basketball, Soccer, and body building.
Experience
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National Institute of Health Researcher
University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham
Jun 2015 – Jul 2015
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Manager
Collis Student Center
Feb 2015 – Sep 2016
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Research Assisstant
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical center
Sep 2014 – Dec 2014
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Peer Tutor
MESA (math, engineering, science and achievement) Center at Georgia Perimeter College
Sep 2012 – Apr 2014
Volunteering
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This activity was about donating books to kids from Kindergarten to fifth grade living in poor neighborhood in order to encourage them to become readers.
Phi Theta Kappa
Dec 2013
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My job was to provide information, directional and way finding services to the attendees of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Georgia House of Representative
Aug 2013 – Sep 2013
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Volunteer
Grady Memorial Hospital (Neuroscience Department)
Jul 2013 – Aug 2014
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Clean ups of roads
Phi Theta Kappa
Oct 2012 – Mar 2014
Languages
- French (France) Advanced
- French (Canada) Advanced
- English (US) Fluent
- Kiswahili Intermediate
Additional information
Organizations
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Phi Theta Kappa
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National Society of Collegiate Scholars
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Science, Technology, Engineering Program
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Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participants
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American Chemical Society
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Mathematics, Engineering, Science and Achievement
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Biomedical Engineering Society
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Student for A Healthy Africa
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Nathan Smith Society
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Brain Society
