UAA Biological Sciences major Summer Engler was awarded a Discovery Grant to help fund her expenses to attend ASILOMAR CHROMATIN AND CHROMOSOMES CONFERENCE in Pacific Grove, CA. Congratulations are also extended Summer's faculty mentor, Dr. Jocelyn Krebs of the Biological Sciences department.
UAA Biological Sciences majors, Timothy Stevenson and Drew Jorgensen were awarded a Discovery Grant to help fund expenses associated with traveling to the 2007 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Toronto, Canada. They presented their research “Abundance and Distribution of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Chester Creek, Anchorage, Alaska” at the conference. Congratulations are also extended to Timothy and Drew's faculty mentor, Khrystyne Duddleston, from the Biological Sciences department.
UAA Biological Science major Reem Sheikh was awarded a Discovery Grant to fund her traveling expenses Washington DC to present her research poster “Fluorescence Analyses of Asthma Associated Mucin Protein Expression after Exposure to Environmental Contaminants” at the Council for Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill Event. Congratulations are also extended to Reem's faculty mentor, Carol Jones, who works for the Alaska Native Medical Center.
UAA Nursing student, Doreen Broderick, was awarded a Discovery Grant to conduct a study on Alaskan Registered nurses perceptions of suicidal actions. She will be using a published tool to collect the data. The tool will be distributed via post to a random sample of 300 nurses licensed by the Alaska Board of Nursing. She hopes her results will be useful for developing educational programs that will increase awareness of suicide risks among Alaskan nurses.
Read about previous years' winners in the 2005-06, 2004-05 and 2003-04 Archive pages.
