From the Echol's website:
"The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought. It offers special opportunities to those undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences who are its most avid learners."
From the website:
The new Ingrassia Family Echols Scholars Research Fund will support Echols Scholars preparing for fourth year capstone projects such as theses, scientific experiments, art exhibitions, musical performances, and the like.
Kelvin Chan was just awarded a $1400 small research and travel grant so that he can attend the neurodevelopment Gordon Conference this summer. Congrats Kelvin and thankyou to the college of arts and sciences!
Thanks to The Hartwell Foundation for supporting our research exploring the sympathetic nervous system and childhood obesity. This work was conceived in consultation with several colleagues around campus studying metabolism including Iggy Provencio, Susanna Keller, Gene Barrett, Thurl Harris, Kyle Thoen, Mike Scott, and several others. I also appreciate the support of the VPR's team (in particular Tom Skalak, Rick Horowitz, Mike Timko, John Lazo, and Nikki Watson) who shepherded these proposals through and provided great comments and advice. I'm very excited to work with so many amazing individuals in the Hartwell Foundation and around UVa. Congratulations also to Silvia Blemker for receiving this honor....her work is mind blowing and promises to help a lot of kids with cleft pallet. That we could receive two of these awards in one year really speaks to the vibrant research community here at UVa. Check out some of the articles written about the award:
Congratulations to Sapir for being awarded a summer stipend from the college science scholars program.
From the CSS website:
"College Science Scholars began in 2003, as a way to provide a small number of highly qualified undergraduates, selected during admission to the University, with direct access to the very best laboratory research faculty and facilities that can be found at the University. An additional group of Science Scholars is selected from rising second-year students, based on nominations from science and math professors. The College Science Scholars program is overseen by the Chairs of the Departments of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology and Statistics."
Congrats to Kelvin and Danielle for winning the Harrison award. See description:
Made possible through the extraordinary generosity of the late David A. Harrison III and his family, the Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards fund outstanding undergraduate research projects.
The University of Virginia's Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards program funds outstanding undergraduate research projects to be carried out in the summer following application for the award and the subsequent academic year.
Kelvin, CD, and Danielle at Fall convocation.
Here are some long overdue pics of the lab moving out of the old space and into the new space.
Congrats to Kelvin for being awarded the Ingrassia Research Grant from the Echols Scholars Program!
Interacting with the community
Catching up with old Friends:
Kelvin Chan in our lab just won the Kenneth C. Bass research scholarship from Chemistry Department. This will support his research on the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal death during development.
Persistence and hard work pay off! Second year undergrad, Kelvin Chan has just been awarded a research/travel grant from the University to support his work in our lab.
We have just been awarded an R01 grant from the NIH/NINDS which will fund our work over the next 5 years.
Back: Dawson, Danielle, Pam, Jian, Catherine
Front: Me (I think I might be getting a little chunky), BJ, Kazusa
We had an awesome time picking apples, drinking cider, and eating donuts. Not a bad way to spend a Friday afternoon.....
Happy B-Day Catherine!!!
Left to Right: Jian, Catherine, Danielle, Chris, Pam, Kazusa
Catherine and Kelvin have just joined Danielle as Echols Scholars. This is a distinct honor shared by only 8.5% of undergrads at UVa.
From the Echols website:
"The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought. It offers special opportunities to those undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences who are its most avid learners."
way to go guys!
Huzzah! Rebecca has accepted her dream job as an editor for cell press and is off to Boston. She'll be missed.
Back row: CD, Kelvin; Front Row: Kazusa, Eliot, Danielle
Eliot hard at work
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