An excerpt from Black Enterprise -
COLLEGE BASKETBALL STAR BECOMES FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO EARN DOCTORATE IN BIOCHEMISTRY AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
By Jeroslyn Johnson
FIU |
Chantrall Frazier made her way through college as a star player on the women’s basketball team. But she’s leaving the school having made history in another area.
As part of Florida International University’s 2022 graduating class, Frazier became the first Black woman at the university to earn her Ph.D. in biochemistry. Frazier brought her passion for biochemistry to the school after obtaining her bachelor’s degree at the HBCU–Savannah State University.
Through her groundbreaking research, Frazier received departmental funding and funding from the Dubai Police. The Florida Education McKnight Fellow and Florida AGEP Pathways Alliance (FL-AGEP) scholar’s work helped to pave a lane for collaborations with the FIU research community. She also created optimized protocols for examining human odor profiles to understand the odors that attract mosquitos.
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