|
Agnes A. Day grew up in Florida, the youngest of 13 children
in a poor family. Day's third-grade teacher, Reverend Mrs. Rosemarie Bryant, recognized her
intelligence, and that had a great impact on Agnes.
Reverend Mrs. Rosemarie Bryant served as an excellent mentor; she saw something
special in Agnes that needed to be developed. Agnes was the youngest of 13
children, and so she asked her mother if she could go and live with Rev Bryant,
and she, in turn, would give Agnes the opportunities that Agnes wouldn't
normally have growing up in the projects of Daytona. So Reverend Mrs. Rosemarie
Bryant always pushed Agnes to do the best that she could while she was growing
up.
Day received her BS in biology from Bethune-Cookman College in Florida in 1974
and her PhD in microbiology from Howard University in 1984. Day then spent
several years in the National Institute of Dental Research, after which she
returned to Howard University, where she is currently an associate professor
and chairman of the Department of Microbiology in the College of Medicine. Her
research interests are drug resistance in fungi, bone and connective tissue
diseases, animal models of breast cancer, and the genetics of breast cancer in
African American women.
Dr. Day has served as a Staff Fellow in the Bone Research Branch, National
Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health from 1984 to 1988,
after which she returned to Howard University as a Research Assistant
Professor. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor and Interim
Chairman of the department of Microbiology, College of Medicine at Howard
University.
She serves as a Scientific Reviewer for research grants submitted to the
National Institutes of Health, The National Science Foundation and the Department
of Defense Cancer Research Initiatives. She was awarded the Outstanding
Research Award by the Howard University College of Medicine for her continued
research excellence.
Dr. Day is also a highly commended teacher, and was presented with the
Kaiser-Permanente Outstanding Teaching Award by the Howard University College
of Medicine. She provides instruction to professional students in
medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy as well as being the Coordinator for the
graduate level courses: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Basic Oncology
and Integrative Oncology. She has mentored over 40 students at the
undergraduate, professional and graduate levels and has served as Research
Advisor to eight Ph. D. students. She also serves on the dissertation
research committees of an additional 9 graduate students from several
departments.
Dr. Day is an active member of the American Society for Microbiology where
she is a member of the Committee on Microbiology Issues which Impact
Minorities. She is also an active member of the American Association for
Cancer Research, where she is a member of the Minorities in Cancer Research and
Women in Cancer Research Committees. Additionally, Dr. Day serves on the
Committee on Diversity of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, and also serves as a Consultant for the American Association for the
Advancement of Science's Black Churches-Black Colleges program and the Minority
Science Net (MiSciNet) database initiative.
--
The mission of NSBE is to increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community.
| 
