Federal Coronavirus Researcher Honored

October 29, 2021

For research at the National Institutes of Health that led to the COVID-19 vaccines, Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American immunologist, has been named one of two Federal Employees of the Year. In Issues, Freeman A. Hrabowski III and Peter H. Henderson of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, write that Corbett also exemplifies gains from expanding participation of underrepresented groups in science. They further propose that their school’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has helped Corbett and numerous other underrepresented students succeed, models how the nation can replicate effective minority-serving programs and in turn tackle fundamental scientific and health problems.

Posted by Tom Burroughs