Awards announced for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for Fall 2009. The PURA awards fund individual requests by student/faculty teams which support undergraduate student involvement in faculty research.

The main emphases of the PURA awards will be for student salaries and travel expenses for undergraduates to attend professional meetings to give presentations.

Either the faculty team member or the undergraduate student can propose the idea for the project, however, the proposal to the awards committee must be written by the student.

Students wishing to work at GTRI may also apply with a Research Scientist and must be U.S. citizens. Students should be in good academic standing when they apply.

Students may apply for $1500 (max) salary awards or $1000 (max) travel awards. Students are eligible for only one successful salary award per academic year, but may apply for travel awards within the same academic year.

Congratulations to the following Chemistry & Biochemistry student/faculty teams:

Ms. Alma Castaneda with Dr. David Collard
Mr. Michael Chen with Dr. Nicholas Hud
Mr. Soohee Cho with Dr. Andreas Bommarius
Mr. Scott Holmes with Dr. Nils Kroger
Ms. Brenda Morales-Pico with Dr. Nicholas Hud
Ms. Mijung Om with Dr. Sheldon May
Mr. Robert Parrish with Dr. David Sherrill
Ms. Tala Suidan with Dr. Wendy Kelly
Mr. Kenneth Wright with Dr. Kenneth Brown