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served as the dedication for Jackson State’s new engineer- ing building. She says maintaining a vibrant campus so- cial life remains vital for her. Raised in Jackson, Anderson also believes in the power of community service; she visits the classroom of her mother, a local teacher, to interact with children about STEM education and careers.


“I think that actually engaging in your social life can make you more of a well-rounded person. Most of my friends are my fellow colleagues and graduates of Jackson State University. Talking with them and interacting with them also serves you to do better in your own field,” Anderson says, noting she is engaged to a former Jackson State student who is a civil engineer and former football player at the university.


Malone, Anderson and Peay, who each received their bachelor’s degrees from Jackson State in computer en- gineering, also are proving adept at balancing intensive summer work activities. Malone has spent the summers of 2009 and 2010 working at the Engineer Research and


Development Center as a student researcher. Anderson and Peay served as summer exchange students during 2010 at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China.


Additionally, Peay, a native of Baltimore and an all- conference collegiate golfer, spent time during 2007 and 2008 at the headquarters of athletic shoe and apparel manufacturer Nike in Portland, OR, serving as an applica- tion engineer assisting in the development of prototypes for the Nike website. Peay’s research focus on the master’s project is integrating quartus wizard-based VHDL floating- point components into a high performance heterogene- ous computing environment.


“As an undergraduate I did four years of collegiate golf. That showed me how to focus and manage my time. It installed a lot of discipline. I carried those roles onto my graduate studies,” Peay says.


by M.V. Greene, mgreene@ccgmag.com


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