About Us

The Knight Scholars Program is housed at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).  It is a collaboration between the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.

• Sipelii, M.N., Tran, C., Mckay, D., Vazquez-Cortes, A., Wesemann, D., Lin, A., Braley, A., Shugerman, S.R., Shannon, J., and Marriott, L.K. (2023). Interprofessional near-peer mentoring teams offer a sustainable approach for enhancing cancer research training of historically underrepresented students. [Research Poster]. OHSU Symposium on Educational Excellence. Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR. May 19, 2023.

• Huerta, J.J., Figuracion, M. T. , Vazquez-Cortes, A., Hanna, R.R.,  Hernandez, A.C. , Benitez, S.B., Sipelii, M.N. , Brooks, T., ZuZero, D.T., Iopu, F.M.R.V., Romero, C.R., Chavez, A., Zell, A., Shugerman, S.R., Shannon, J.S., and Marriott, L.K. (2022). Interprofessional near-peer mentoring teams enhance cancer research training: sustainable approaches for biomedical workforce development of historically underrepresented students. Journal of STEM Outreach, 5 (2), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15695/jstem/v5i2.10 

• Marriott, Lisa K., Susan R. Shugerman, Arcelia Chavez, Lynda Crocker Daniel, Azalea Martinez, Derrik J. Zebroski, Sara Mishalanie, et al. 2022. “Knight Scholars Program: A Tiered Three-Year Mentored Training Program for Urban and Rural High School High School Students Increases Interest and Self-Efficacy in Interprofessional Cancer Research.” Journal of STEM Outreach 5 (2): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.15695/jstem/v5i2.06.

The Knight Scholars Program is housed at Oregon Health & Science University and is funded by the National Cancer Institute and Kuni Foundation.