Aleisha N. Baker, a sophomore physics major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , won the “2006 Outstanding Student Research Award," at the 15th annual meeting of the National Association of African American Honors Programs.

The meeting was hosted in Columbia, S.C., by Benedict College, Claflin University, and South Carolina State University, November 1-4. Baker’s topic was “Systematic Search for the Ideal Inorganic Scintillator,” and it summarized the research she conducted during her summer 2006 research internship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. A native of Charlotte, N.C., Baker was mentored at Berkeley by Dr. Stephen Derenzo. Approximately 60 student papers were presented at the conference.