Janelle Walker | Honor Society®

About

Extremely focused and highly driven, I undertake all scholastic pursuits with dogged diligence and dedication. I am a twenty-two-year-old senior at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York with a passion for mathematics: problem-solving, analyzing, logic, developing strategies. In addition, I minor in the discipline of environmental science.

My goal is to earn my Ph.D in Mathematics as I broaden my horizon, gain experience, understand key concepts, growing and developing as an individual while simultaneously effecting meaningful changes in the nation’s Math education program.

Priding myself as a finalist for Jamaica's Rhodes Scholarship 2017, my passion and ultimate life goal is to use education to make a change on a macro scale particularly where people of low socioeconomic backgrounds are of dire concern. All things considered, I want to make useful contributions in science that will create a positive and lasting change for generations to come while simultaneously improving the quality of life for all living things.

Education

CUNY Medgar Evers College

mathematics/ environmental science

2013 – 2016

Honors and awards

Finalist for Jamaica's Rhodes Scholarship 2017

The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford. The award is widely considered to be one of the world's most prestigious scholarships.
Student Government Association Scholarship
Accepted into Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Computational Biology and Biostatistics Summer REU Program
Accepted into the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Summer REU Program in Berkeley, California
Accepted into the 2016 Cary Institute REU program for the project "The effects of contaminants on stream ecosystem structure and function"
F-GAP (Facilitated Graduate Applications Process) Alliance Scholar in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences.
Gilbert Rivera Scholarship
Caribbean Leadership Empowerment Foundation Scholarship
Dean's List Award 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Presidents List Award (On the Dean's list four consecutive semesters earning a 4.0 GPA in at least one semester)
Student Panelist for Spring 2016 Open House at Medgar Evers College
Alumni Association of Medgar Evers Scholarship
Environmental, Health and Safety Intern at the headquarters for Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi
Department of Mathematics Scholarship Fund

Goals and interests

Career goal: I intend to earn my PhD in Mathematics and hopefully take a few statistics courses along the way. My career aspiration is to do research.

Experience

Student Research Candidate

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jan 2017
Team Leader

Camperdown High School, Kingston, JA

Dec 2016 – May 2017
Summer Research Candidate

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Jun 2016 – Jul 2016
Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation, Brooklyn, NY

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016
Student Retention Ambassador

CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

Sep 2015 – Dec 2016
Supplemental Instructor, Department of Mathematics

CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

Sep 2015 – Jun 2016
Teaching Assistant, Freshman Seminar Remedial Mathematics Program

CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY

Sep 2015 – Jun 2016
Environmental, Health and Safety Intern

Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee, WI

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015
Cashier

Walgreens Pharmacy, Brooklyn, NY

Apr 2015 – May 2015
Real Estate Assistant

Golden Life Realty Corp., Brooklyn, NY

Mar 2014 – May 2015
Cashier

Sears Corporation and Roebuck, Brooklyn, NY

Oct 2012 – Mar 2014

Volunteering

Volunteer

Bowery Residential Committee Volunteer Services

Nov 2015
Volunteer

Boys and Girls Club United Way, Milwaukee, WI

Aug 2015

Languages

English (UK) Fluent

Additional information

Organizations

About

Education

CUNY Medgar Evers College

Honors and awards

Finalist for Jamaica's Rhodes Scholarship 2017

Student Government Association Scholarship

Accepted into Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Computational Biology and Biostatistics Summer REU Program

Accepted into the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Summer REU Program in Berkeley, California

Accepted into the 2016 Cary Institute REU program for the project "The effects of contaminants on stream ecosystem structure and function"

F-GAP (Facilitated Graduate Applications Process) Alliance Scholar in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences.

Gilbert Rivera Scholarship

Caribbean Leadership Empowerment Foundation Scholarship

Dean's List Award 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Presidents List Award (On the Dean's list four consecutive semesters earning a 4.0 GPA in at least one semester)

Student Panelist for Spring 2016 Open House at Medgar Evers College

Alumni Association of Medgar Evers Scholarship

Environmental, Health and Safety Intern at the headquarters for Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi

Department of Mathematics Scholarship Fund

Goals and interests

Experience

Student Research Candidate

Team Leader

Summer Research Candidate

Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics

Student Retention Ambassador

Supplemental Instructor, Department of Mathematics

Teaching Assistant, Freshman Seminar Remedial Mathematics Program

Environmental, Health and Safety Intern

Cashier

Real Estate Assistant

Cashier

Volunteering

Volunteer

Volunteer

Languages

Additional information

National Society of Black Engineers (opens in a new tab)

Medgar Evers College Mathematics Society (opens in a new tab)

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (opens in a new tab)

National Society for Leadership and Success (opens in a new tab)

National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences (opens in a new tab)