Stephen James Harris, Jr.
2005 LOE Award Recipient
"Our Future" Award Recipient
Given in appreciation for his efforts to make a positive investment in the future of his community.
 Steven James Harris, Jr. is an up and coming third year medical student at Howard University College of Medicine. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1999 and attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
While at Morehouse College, Steven competed across the country as a sprinter and hurdler on the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers Track and Field team. In three years he became the Captain of the team and assisted the track team in winning three consecutive Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002. In addition Steven was the second leg on the 2002 hurdle relay team at the Penn Relays which proved to be the 10th fastest time in the world that year according to Track and Field News.
At Morehouse, Mr. Harris majored in Biology and Spanish. He has worked in the department of cell biology at Morehouse College in the lab of Dr. Rita Finley; he has done research in Neurobiology at Spelman College under Dr. Pamela Scott-Johnson and at Morehouse School of Medicine with Dr. Byron Ford. In Dr. Ford's Lab, Mr. Harris worked to isolate a protein named Nna-1 (nuclear neuronal protein induced by axotomy) from its mRNA transcripts. This protein, which was discovered at Morehouse School of Medicine, is expressed after crush injury or axotomy to nerves in mice, and is hoped to show promise in the re-growth of neural tissues in paralyzed patients.
In 2001, Steven was inducted into Beta Kappa Chi, the national scientific honor society, and Alpha Epsilon Delta, the national premedical honor society. The latter of which, Steven was one of three students awarded an academic scholarship by Dr. Thomas Blocker, the regional president. Steven Graduated Cum Laude from Morehouse College in 2003.
Mr. Harris, son of Steven and Linda Harris is currently a Doctoral of Medicine candidate at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC where he will be eligible for the receipt of the MD in Emergency Medicine in May of 2007. Mr. Harris plans to practice in one of this country's many medically underserved minority communities.
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