MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

MIT Grad Students from Tallahassee, Miramar Receive Citibank Fellowships

July 31, 1997

Two Massachusettes Institute of Technology engineering students from Florida have been awarded Citibank Foundation Fellowships for minority graduate students for the 1997-98 academic year.

The students, Jonna J.K. Peat of Miramar and Kareem Benjamin of Tallahassee, received the Bachelor of Science from MIT last spring and expect to complete work toward Masters of Engineering degrees in June.

Ms. Peat, a graduate of Boyd Anderson High School in Ft. Lauderdale, was a National Merit Scholar, a National Achievement Scholar and a National Advisory Council for Minorities Scholar. She also was inducted into the Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

Mr. Benjamin, who was graduated from Rolla (Mo.) High School before moving to Florida, was an AT&T Bell Laboratories Engineering Scholar at MIT from 1993-97 and won the MIT Office of Minority Education Academic Excellence Award in 1995.

Citibank, with headquarters in New York, contributes more than $23 million annually to community development, education, culture, health and the environment, and has an ongoing interest in increasing the number of under-represented men and women at all levels of higher education.