Aliya Gifford: Physicist at Kennedy Krieger
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Participant: ’95, ’96, ’97, S’05-‘07
Major/Field of Study: Physics
Education: B.A. from Randolph College, M.A. Virginia Tech
Employment: Research Assistant at Kennedy Krieger Institute
The institute’s mission is to help children and adolescents with brain and spinal cord injury and disease.
Most interesting country visited: Egypt
Favorite GYV Memory: Definitely the evening programs, particularly the Central Asian focus we had during one of my years there.
Biography: I was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Virginia. I now live in Baltimore, MD. I enjoy cooking and road cycling. I appreciate my job at Kennedy Krieger (affiliated with John’s Hopkins University) and am working on MRI development for imaging the spinal cord. I look forward to doing more traveling in the years ahead.<–>
I am so proud and honored to know and work with Aliya…She is amazing, talented, young woman, with a wonderful heart and personality…I wish her all the success and happiness…I know that she will continue to make us all proud…. I look forward to hearing of all of your advances….hug and smooches…dani