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<\/a><\/p>\n(Dr. Joshua Behr and DaChawn Kincaid)<\/p>\n
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My name is DaChawn Kincaid<\/strong>. I am a upcoming junior Presidential Scholar from Tougaloo College which is located in Jackson, Mississippi. My hobbies include playing the drums, piano, and basketball. Along with these hobbies, I have always been interested in the various social problems that our society has today. This is why I chose to major in Sociology at Tougaloo College. I also decided to pick up a minor in Disaster Coastal Studies. I became interested in this study while attending an event on Tougaloo\u2019s campus. This event introduced DCS to many of the social science majors at Tougaloo. I was drawn to DCS because I realized that natural disasters can cause or worsen many social problems our society has. I have yet to take any classes that are within the DCS program. However, this fall I will begin this program. My minor in DCS is one of the huge reasons why I chose to participate in this internship. I chose to partake in this internship because I wanted to get an introduction to my minor while learning from the professors that will be mentoring me while I am stationed at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center and Old Dominion University. Among these professors are Drs. Yusuf, Padilla, Frydenlund, and Behr. For the short time I have been here I realized that these professors are very intelligent and that having conversations with them and asking for their help when needed will be a tremendous benefit for me. The things I hope to receive are opportunities to network with intelligent individuals, gaining the knowledge and skill of creating models of events and locations, and gaining new experiences and a new perception of the world we live in today. This entire experience will help me figure out my next step in terms of education. I am still thinking about graduate school and maybe joining a PhD program afterwards. As far as my career goals I have not yet decided what I want my career to be. I have narrowed my career goals to either becoming a lawyer, professor, or a working for the Central Intelligence Agency. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are excited to welcome DaChawn Kincaid as our SUMREX student for May – June 2018. Please visit this site regularly, as DaChawn will be posting reflections on his ODU experience. In this post, DaChawn briefly introduces himself. (Dr. Joshua… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/odudhscrcproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}