Past Research Grant Recipients
4/21/10 - Ekaterina Khramtsova from University of Illinois at Chicago presented at the American
Association for Cancer Research meeting in DC on April 17-21, 2010 with a travel grant sponsored by AURS. She
participated in the Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster
Competition and a Cellular and Molecular Biology poster session
4/10/10 - Samantha Strasser from Northwestern received a 1-year
long research grant. She went on later that year to win a Goldwater
Scholarship.
5/3/07 - AURS sponsored Stanford senior Tiffany Prugpichailers to present her research at the 2008 Chicago conference of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. See http://www.aans.org/annual/2008 for more details.
 
1/1/07 - In November, the AURS sent Washington University in St. Louis student Kristi Nigh to the national SSSS conference to present her research on how human behavioral studies in the academic setting might change if education became more liberalized.
1/1/07 - The AURS sponsored Washington University in St. Louis student Amir Francois to present a poster at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). The conference, held in Anaheim, California from November 8-11, 2006, was comprised of scientific sessions, professional development workshops, student oral and poster presentations, and exhibits. The ABRCMS is the largest, multidisciplinary conference for biomedical and behavioral sciences students. See http://www.abrcms.org/documents/FINALPP.pdf for more details.
11/25/06 - AURS member Carlyn Tan from the Chicago region was a finalist in the national McKnight Prize in Chemistry. The Frank and Sara McKnight Prize in Undergraduate Chemistry was instituted to promote undergraduate research in chemistry through recognition of outstanding accomplishment. Twelve finalists, including Carlyn, were chosen from more than 100 undergraduates representing 85 universities and colleges and 28 states. The finalists traveled to New Braunfels for a retreat and to present poster presentations of their work. Abbott Labs and the AURS sponsored Carlyn for this trip. See http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept23109/files/304738.html for more details.
 
(Carlyn at New Braunfels for the Frank and Sara McKnight Prize retreat)
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