Sam Migirditch, a member of Biyosef since 2013, won an award for his undergraduate research on fluorescence anisotropy at the APS March Meeting. There were 150 undergraduates presenting this year and only twenty recieved awards.
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PI Dr. Brooke Hester (Physics) and co-PI Dr. Jennifer Cecile (Chemistry) recieved the Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Enhancement Award and $10,000 in funding from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The Award provides seed money for research by junior faculty at ORAU member institutions.
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PI Dr. Brooke Hester and co-PI Dr. Jennifer Cecile were awarded a $1,500 seed grant from the Office of Student Research at Appalachian State University as well as a $4,848 AWS Infrastructure grant.
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Two BiyOSeF students have each been awarded an Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) from the Office of Student Research at Appalachian State University. URA's are awarded to highly motivated students working closely with a faculty mentor on their research.
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Zacahary Jenkins has been awarded a research grant from the Graduate Student Association Senate at Appalachian State University for his work on Raman Spectroscopy of Biofilms.
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Three BiyOSeF students have been awarded research grants from the Office of Student Research at Appalachian State University.
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Kayla Zimmerman won an undergraduate Research Grant from Phi Kappa Phi for her proposal, Partial Automation of a Raman-tweezers Apparatus.
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Ten BiyOSeF students traveled to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to present their research at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS).
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Jacob Cole has been awarded the George Barthalmus Undergraduate Research Grant from the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium advisory board for his work on Towards Frequency-Domain Fluorescence Anisotropy of the Organic Anion Transporter.
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Christina Johnson has been awarded a research grant from the Office of Student Research at Appalachian State University to study Raman spectroscopy of yeast used in the fermentation of beer.
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