Pictured, (left to right), Jaime Garcia, Jessica Whitley, Lauren Smith, Curtis Wilkes, Crystal Weil, Stacy Branham, and Ron Forbes

This year’s Virginia Tech scholars:

Lauren Smith [Research Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Kavanaugh]

Stacy Branham [Research Supervisor: Dr. Scott McCrickard]

Ronald Forbes [Research Supervisor: Dr. Chris North]

Jaime Garcia [Research Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Edwards]

Crystal Weil [Research Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Edwards]

Curtis Wilkes [Research Supervisor: Dr. Doug Bowman]

Jessica Whitley [Research Supervisor: Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones]

Eight students will be selected to participate in “Scholars of the Future” for the next academic year. Applicants must be in their junior or senior year. The program is directed at Virginia Tech by Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones with support from Whitney Edmister from the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity in the College of Engineering and Pardha Pyla from the CS Department.