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CBN Grad Student Honored at Keystone Conference

Jonathan Davila, a student in Prof. Ron Hart's lab, was recently awarded a Travel Grant to attend the 2008 Keystone Symposium on RNAi, microRNAs, and non-coding RNA, held at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Jonathan is shown here presenting his poster at the Symposium.

CBN Honors Program News

The Honors Colloquium is scheduled for Tuesday, April 29, from 4:00PM to 5:30PM in the Life Sciences Building Atrium. Please join us to recognize the research accomplishments of our honors program students!

Michael Hayoun, a CBN-Psychology major at Rutgers, was recently named as one of three Rutgers seniors awarded Gates Scholarships for Graduate Study. This highly prestigious award enables Mr. Hayoun to attend Cambridge’s MPhil in BioScience Enterprise program. Mr. Hayoun intends to complete an M.D./Ph.D. and enter the field of translational research. The faculty of CBN congratulate Mr. Hayoun as well as the other two students receiving this grant—the greatest number of awards for any public university.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

This is a program (called Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship – SURF) available to Life Sciences majors in doing research during the summer. This is intended for students interested in pursuing novel, independent research under the supervision of a Life Sciences faculty member. Awardees are expected to work in the lab full time (40 hrs/week) for a period of 10 weeks. A $3000 stipend will be provided.

For more information about SURF and the application, visit the Awards and Fellowships link on the Life Sciences website: http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~ougi/