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Contact: Caitlin Jenney, (303) 724-1520, Caitlin.Jenney@uchsc.edu
UCDHSC Student Awarded a Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship
AURORA, Colo. (Oct. 12, 2007) - The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Andrea Suarez from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center as a 2007-2010 award recipient of the Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship. Suarez will be awarded an annual stipend of up to $21,000 a year over three years to conduct research on Cell Type Specific Outcomes of Gammaherpesvirus Infection.
The Watkins fellowship seeks to increase the number of graduate students from underrepresented groups completing doctoral degrees in the microbiological sciences. The program is aimed at highly competitive students who are enrolled in a PhD program and have completed their graduate coursework in the microbiological sciences. Fellows and their mentors are required to be members of ASM.
Fellows will be required to present at the ASM General Meeting annually if their abstract is accepted and attend the ASM Kadner Institute, formerly known as the ASM Graduate and Postdoctoral Summer Institute in Preparation for Careers in Microbiology, one time during the three-year tenure of the fellowship.
This year, 55 applications were received and six were awarded. Of the six awardees, five students were from doctoral/research universities, and one student was from a specialized institution.
"I'm thrilled and honored to be one of the select few chosen for this prestigious Fellowship," said Suarez.
Linda van Dyk, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology at UCDHSC's School of Medicine, is Suarez's mentor.
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest and largest single biological membership organization, with over 40,000 members worldwide. Please visit http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=6278 for more information on this fellowship.
The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is one of three universities in the University of Colorado system. Located in Denver, on the Auraria Campus, at Ninth & Colorado Blvd. and on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., UCDHSC is Colorado's premier research university offering more than 100 degrees and programs in 12 schools and colleges and serving more than 28,000 students in Metro Denver and online. For more information, visit the web site at www.ucdhsc.edu or the UCDHSC Newsroom at http://www.uchsc.edu/news.
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