[See, some students actually enjoy math and biostatistics!!]
Today’s online The Mercury, the student newspaper of the University of Texas-Dallas (UTD), features a story about a UTD undergraduate student accepted directly into a biostatistics PhD program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Ms. Therri Usher applied to a master’s program and was accepted into the PhD program with full funding. That Ms. Usher earned this relatively rare achievement is a testament to her hard work, course work and intellect. Congratulations, Therri!!
Copied from The Mercury website:
….[Therri] Usher said she feels it was her honesty in the interview as well as her strong academic work that helped her get in to the university.
“The department is very impressed with my course work,” she said. “(Although) UTD may not be very known, it really prepares you.”
While Usher’s favorite subject has always been math, she started at UTD as a biology pre-med student.
“I thought I could become a doctor, that is something I could do,” she said. “It never dawned on me that I could major in math.”
But about three weeks into a chemistry class, she asked herself what she was doing as a biology major.
“It’s not that I don’t like biology, its just that some thing was missing,” she said. “It was not as fun as math.”
During her time at UTD, Usher was an undergraduate teaching assistant for the mathematics depart ment, worked for a non profit organization called Psy Tech Discovery and performed biostatistics-related research on campus.
She was also president of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority and member of the National Society of Black Engineers….[The Mercury article continues.]
