2025 MS-CC Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium
Wednesday August 6, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
In the final week of the internship, students showcased their research during an Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium hosted at Fisk University. The symposium provided a platform for student interns to present their research projects and share their experiences. Please see the agenda below with their presentations linked for more information.
This symposium was a fantastic opportunity to witness the culmination of hard work and dedication from 14 talented students representing various Historically Black Colleges and Universities. These interns have successfully completed the 2025 MS-CC Undergraduate Research internship at Fisk University in collaboration with Meharry Medical College and showcased their research and achievements.
We’ve shared the students’ presentations on this page, so check them out.
Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium Agenda
| Time | Agenda | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–9 AM | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 9-9:30 AM | Welcome |
Dr. Sajid Hussian Meharry Medical College Dr. Karl Walker Fisk University |
| 9:30-10 AM | Opening Keynote | Dr. Nadine Shillingford Meharry SACS |
| 10-10:30 AM | Deep Learning for Wildfire Risk Prediction (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Uttam Ghosh, Mentor Meharry Medical College Debashis Das, Co-Mentor Meharry Medical College Koi Cooks Dillard University Caleb Maxie Dillard University |
| 10:30-11 AM | Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Environmental Driver PM2.5 on Respiratory Health: Emergency Room Visits for Asthma and COPD (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Pushpita Chatterjee, Mentor Meharry Medical College Victoria Franklin, Co-Mentor Meharry Medical College Michael Paul, Co-Mentor Meharry Medical College Donovan Banks North Carolina Central University Niaja-Amarri Mitchell Tuskegee University |
| 11-11:30 AM | Break & Networking | |
| 11:30-12 PM | Geospatial Prediction of Climate Change Hotspots: Identifying Areas Most Affected by Climate Change using AI (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Hina Raja, Mentor Fisk University Charisma Harris Fisk University LaRon Foster Jr. Alabama A&M University |
| 12-12:30 PM | Predicting Regional Climate Patterns Using Graphic Neural Networks (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Ning Zhang, Mentor Fisk University Jordan Johnson Texas Southern University Mya Tolbert University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2 PM | Predicting Global Temperature Anomalies (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Lei Qian, Mentor Meharry Medical College Michaela Robinson Fisk University Chloe Banks Alabama State University |
| 2-2:30 PM | EcoPredictML: Understanding and Predicting Ecosystem Disruption Impacting Mammals through Machine Learning Models (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Sajid Hussain, Mentor Meharry Medical College Loni Taylor, Co-mentor Meharry Medical College Asmah Muallem, Co-mentor Meharry Medical College Juliet Alozie Fisk University Justin Freeman Alabama State University |
| 2:30-3 PM | Evaluating Climate Change Effects on Agricultural Yield Using Deep Learning (Presentation with Q&A) |
Dr. Firdous Kausar, Mentor Fisk University Raven Mott Virginia State University Calvin Kamara Bowie State University |
| 3-3:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
David Lockett & Courtney Quarterman Meharry Medical College |
| 3:30-4 PM | Presentation of Certificates |
Alexia Jones, Sr. Program Mgr. MS-CC |
| 4-5:30 PM | Student Research Showcase & Poster Session | MS-CC Undergraduate Student Summer Research interns and local student researchers |