Breadcrumb Home People EmPOWERment Trainees EmPOWERment Trainees EmPOWERment is excited to welcome our newest cohort of trainees for the 2022-2023 academic year! New trainees are accepted into EmPOWERment annually and participate in the program for the duration of their PhD studies. EmPOWERment Trainees Jamie Allen Environment and Natural Resources Trainee since 2020 Noah Bevers Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering Trainee since 2022 Brian Capobianco Environment and Natural Resources Trainee since 2020 Flint Colvin Materials Science Engineering Trainee since 2021 Abdirashid Mohamed Dahir Geography Trainee since 2021 Ryan DeMilt Computer Science and Engineering Trainee since 2022 Mohamad Elsayed Electrical and Computer Engineering Trainee since 2022 Okezie Emmanuel Animal Sciences Trainee since 2020 Kat Finneran Geography Trainee since 2022 Yunjing Guo Integrated Systems Engineering Trainee since 2021 Diego Hincapie Ossa Civil Engineering Trainee since 2020 Sushma Katari Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering Trainee since 2022 Kenzington Kottenbrock Biomedical Engineering Trainee since 2022 Michael Lee Mechanical Engineering Trainee since 2020 Liping Li Integrated Systems Engineering Trainee since 2021 David Liu Chemistry Trainee since 2021 David Mapunda Aerospace Engineering Trainee since 2021 Ahmad Mohammadshirazi Computer Science and Engineering Trainee since 2020 Shannay Rawal Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering Trainee since 2022 Jaden Tatum Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Trainee since 2020 Euler Valdivieso Electrical and Computer Engineering Trainee since 2022 Haotian Wu Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics Trainee since 2021 Qingrun Yang Civil Engineering Trainee since 2020 Obaida Darwish Electrical Engineering Trainee since 2022