Biographic Sketch

I am Dr. Kevin Emmanuel Scriber, II. I am a native of Washingtonian (born in Washington, D.C. I am a first-generation high-school, college, Master's, and PhD graduate. I earned my B.Sc., in Biology, from Norfolk State University (NSU A Historically Black College and/or University, HBCU). In pursuit of my undergraduate degree, I procured more than $100,000 in grants and scholarships from sources including, but not limited to, the following:

1. (a) the DC Tuition Assistance Grants (DC TAG, $50,000)

2. (b) DC College Access Program (DC CAP, $4,000 per year)

3. (c) DC Leveraging Educational Assistance Program (DC LEAP, $2,500 per year)

4. (d) NSF Minorities in Science Grant ($2,000 per year)

5. (e) Federal Student Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG, $4,000 per year)

6. (f) Pell Grant ($1,550-$2,600 per year).

7. (g) the ACCESS Scholarship (at NSU, $3,000 per year).

I worked multiple jobs, tutored in NSU'S Department of Biology, while completing required coursework at four institutions: Norfolk State University, Thomas Nelson Community College, Tidewater Community College, and The University of the District of Columbia. In summers, I completed four federal summer internships at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), before graduating.

I earned my M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB, a Predominantly white institution, PWI). I was a graduate fellow for the National Science Foundation (NSF; the ALSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Fellowship), one of eight at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

 Furthermore, I was the sole Masters student to receive this funding, to receive funding to pursue a Masters of Science at UAB. 

I graduated in less than two years with my M.Sc., my first collegiate STEM teaching certification (from the Center for the Integration of Teaching, Research, and Learning, CIRTL), and a 3.5 GPA.

In Washington, D.C., growing up, I had walked past Howard University my whole life. 

I pursued a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Howard University, beginning in 2014. 

I procured several sources of funding: An Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship, an inaugural Ernest E. Just-Percy L. Julian Graduate Research Assistantship, and a Teaching Assistantship from the Howard University Graduate School and the Department of Biology. I completed my PhD in Evolutionary Biology, and a second CIRTL teaching certification, and graduated with a 3.8 GPA. 

My dissertation investigated the trophic Ecology of the invasive apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, one of the world's worst 100 invasive species. As a PhD Fellow and Candidate, I worked in: The Smithsonian Institute's Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Facility (with principal investigator Dr. Christine France from 2014-2019). 

This appointment was made possible by the Smithsonian Institute’s Office of the Undersecretary for Science (OUSS), in collaboration with the Museum Conservation Institute (MCI). 

I received a Research Associate position at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of Natural History in the Department of Malacology (2014-2019). 

I was also a Research Associate in the Department of Biology, at Georgetown University, in the laboratory of Dr. Leslie Ries from 2016 to 2019. 

I completed my research and dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Fatimah Jackson in the Howard University Interdisciplinary Research Building.