Six Undergraduates Working With CMCI-Affiliated Faculty Are Recipients of College of Science Fellowships
The College of Science recently announced the recipients of this year’s Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowships. We are proud to report that half of these diligent students are working with CMCI-affiliated faculty. Congratulations to:
- Courtney Kennedy, for the project “Determining Antifungal Resistance Mechanisms in Yeast Using High Throughput Robotics” (working with Professor Paul Rowley)
- David Richards, for the project “Effect of Donor-Recipient Ratio on Horizontal Viral Transmission Rates in Drosophila melanogaster (working with Professor Christine Parent)
- Frankie Scholz, for the project “Antibody Escape Mutations in Respiratory Syncytial Virus” (working with Professor Tanya Miura)
- Eli Smith, for the project “Multistability Analysis of Sound Effects on Binocular Vision” (working with Professor Linh Nguyen)
Read the press release and see past winners here.
Additionally, 2 out of 4 of the students who received extended College of Science Undergraduate Research Grants, are also affiliated with CMCI. Congratulations to:
- Madison Bergeman, for the project “Effects of Sequential Co-infection of Viruses in Drosophila Adult Flies” (working with Professor Christine Parent)
- Aaron Law, for the project “Evolution of Bacteria towards Plasmid Addiction” (working with Professor Eva Top)
