Kayla’s research was selected for a poster presentation at NCUR (National Conferences on Undergraduate Research). Great job Kayla! She had a lot of people at her poster and one enthusiastic fellow undergraduate who was happy to see a bioinformatics project represented at NCUR! The posters at NCUR were impressive, it represented the diversity in undergraduate research experiences!
I was invited to present at the Pacific Branch Meeting of Entomological Society of America in the Symposium: Insects In Eden – Frontiers In Insect Ecology, Development, And Evolution moderated by Robert Zinna, a graduate student in Entomology at WSU. It was a pleasure to participate in the symposium and talk about the Antarctic midge genome. The talks in the symposium were diverse and fascinating!
Undergraduate researcher Julian Ponsford receives Youth Activity Fund Grant from The Explorer Club for an upcoming field expedition to Mexico. He will be sampling water from different streams in Mexico. Congratulations Julian! https://explorers.org/expeditions/funding/expedition_grants
Kayla presented her work on the tropical gar at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA). SURCA highlights research from across campus. Kayla’s poster won a Gray award in Molecular, Cellular and Chemical Biology. Congratulations Kayla! Also in the WSU news at: https://news.wsu.edu/2015/04/10/largest-surca-competition-names-51-top-researchers/
Graduate student Anthony Brown received honorable mention for his National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship application! We are very proud of this accomplishment! The NSF GRFP supports graduate students in science, engineering, mathematics and technology!