![Picture of Patrick](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/photo.jpg)
Patrick Ymele Leki
Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University USA, Washington, DC
patrick.ymeleleki@howard.edu
202-806-6624
Graduate Students
![Alrick Davis](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Alrick-Davis-e1717875722841.jpg)
Alrick Davis
Summer 2024 – Present
![Bereket Argaw](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Bereket-Argaw-e1708667255977.jpg)
Bereket Argaw
Fall 2023 – Present
![Sarees Shaikh](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sarees-Shaikh-e1646797828914.jpg)
Sarees Shaikh
Spring 2021 – Present
![Tochukwu Uyanne](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Tochukwu-Uyanne-scaled-e1717876370564.jpg)
Tochukwu Uyanne
Spring 2021 – Present
Undergraduate Students
![Nafay Saleem](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Nafay-Saleem.jpg)
Nafay Saleem
Summer 2024 – Present
![Christopher Fowler](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ChristopherFowler-e1717875019304.jpg)
Christopher Fowler
Summer 2024 – Present
![Elijah Pratt](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ElijahPratt-e1717874950653.jpg)
Elijah Pratt
Summer 2024 – Present
![Amani Midgette](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Amani-Midgette-scaled-e1708663775160.jpg)
Amani Midgette
Fall 2023 – Present
Alumni: Graduate Students
![Abiye Mekonnen](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/AbiyeM-3.jpg)
Abiye Mekonnen
Summer 2014 – Spring 2016
![Elbethel Damtae](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Elbethel-Damtae.jpeg)
Elbethel Damtae
Spring 2017 – Spring 2018
![Tafadzwa Chigumira](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Tafadzwa-Chigumira.png)
Tafadzwa Chigumira
Summer 2017 – Summer 2019
![Mahtab Waseem](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Mahtab-Waseem-2-e1707975845276.jpg)
Mahtab Waseem
Fall 2019 – Summer 2022
![Demetria Sims](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Demetria-Sims-1-e1707975921125.jpeg)
Demetria Sims
Spring 2023
Alumni: Undergraduate Students
![Kalah Ozimba](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/KalahO-2.jpg)
Kalah Ozimba
Fall 2014 – Spring 2017
![Emmanuel Ike](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/EmmanuelI-1.jpg)
Emmanuel Ike
Summer 2015 – Spring 2017
![Mahtab Waseem](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/MahtabW-1.jpg)
Mahtab Waseem
Fall 2015 – Spring 2018
1st Place award
in the Environmental Division Poster Session at the 2020 Annual AIChE Meeting.
3rd Place award
for her presentation at the 2017 ERN Conference in Washington, DC
2nd Place award
at the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition of the North Central Branch ASM 2016 Meeting held at Iowa State University
1st Place award
at the 2016 Washington Baltimore Hampton Roads-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (WBHR-LSAMP)
3rd Place award
at the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition [Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology Session IX] of the 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT
![Terinney Haley](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TerinneyH-3.jpg)
Terinney Haley
Summer 2014 – Spring 2017
![Tariq Johnson](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Tariq-Johnson.jpg)
Tariq Johnson
Summer 2016 – Fall 2017
![Bria Rice](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/BriaR-1.jpg)
Bria Rice
2013 – 2014
![Dolce Lawless](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dolce-Lawless.jpg)
Dolce Lawless
Spring 2014
![Simone Stanley](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SimoneS-1-e1485576576960.jpg)
Simone Stanley
Spring 2016 – Spring 2017
1st Place award at the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition [General Engineering and Engineering Education Session] at the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, LA
![Chukukwa Ibecheozor](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ChukaI-1.jpg)
Chukukwa Ibecheozor
Summer 2014
![Khari Johnson](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/KhariJ-Pic.jpg)
Khari Johnson
Summer 2015
![Ayomikun Olarinoye](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ayomikun-Olarinoye.jpg)
Ayomikun Olarinoye
Summer 2017 – Spring 2019
![Elan Holston](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Elan-Holston-e1708664001784.jpg)
Elan Holston
Summer 2021 – Spring 2022
![Laurryn Sells](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Laurryn-Sells-e1707976028351.jpg)
Laurryn Sells
Fall 2019 – Spring 2022
![Olabisi Bello](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Olabisi-Bello-scaled-e1707975499213.jpg)
Olabisi Bello
Spring 2022 – Spring 2023
3rd Place award at t the WE22 Collegiate Poster & Rapid Fire Competitions of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in Houston, TX
![Treylin Lewis](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Treylin-Lewis-e1707975743349.jpg)
Treylin Lewis
Summer 2022 – Spring 2024
Collaborators
![Jeseth Delgado Vela](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jeseth-Vela-Delgado.jpg)
Jeseth Delgado Vela
PhD
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
![Courtney Robinson](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Courtney_Robinson2-1.jpg)
Courtney Robinson
PhD
Department of Biology, Howard University
![Jamel Ali](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jamel-Ali-1-1.jpg)
Jamel Ali
PhD
Department of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
![Patrick Still](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/patrick-still-1-1.jpg)
Patrick Still
PhD
Department of Chemistry, California State University, Dominguez Hills
![Michael Lipscomb](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Michael-Lipscomb-1.jpg)
Michael Lipscomb
PhD
Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
![Kimberly L. Jones](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/czHGAeUs_400x400-1.jpg)
Kimberly L. Jones
PhD
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Howard University
![Preethi L. Chandran](https://pylbiocheglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Preethi20L-1.jpeg)
Preethi L. Chandran
PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University