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FIRST
Alumnae Receive NIH Funding
Program
Update
Annual
IRACDA Conference
Fellows' Monthly Seminar Series
FIRST Fellows Receive Faculty Appointments
Article
About FIRST Published In the Journal of College Science Teaching,
May, 2005
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FIRST
Alumnae Receive Major Funding
Dr.
Sarah Brosnan – an Assistant Professor
at Georgia State University, was awarded a grant from NSF for
$514,658 which began 10/01/07, 1 month after she started her
faculty position at GSU. This was her first grant application
and she actually wrote the grant while still in the FIRST program
in anticipation of the start of her faculty position at Georgia
State; see http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0729244.
Assistant
Professor of Chemistry at Morehouse College, Dr.
Lance Shipman received
a NSF Research Initiation
grant, and an NIH MBRS SCORE grant. (For complete
article see: http://www.morehouse.edu/academics/HBCU_UP/PDF/LShipmanFacultySpotlight.pdf).
Assistant
Professor of Biology at Haverford College, Dr.
Andrea Morris,
who finished the FIRST program in 2003, received an NIH grant
for "Sonic the Hedgehog." The five-year grant—the first of its kind awarded to
a faculty member at a small liberal arts college—supports
Morris’ exploration into the molecular mechanisms of
visual system development, focusing on a particular gene
called, yes,
“sonic hedgehog” and its role in retinal axon guidance
which is the process of connecting the eye to the appropriate
parts of the brain that allow for visual perception. (For the
complete article see: http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/861/51.)
Dr.
Valerie Haftel, Assistant Professor in the Department
of Biology at Morehouse College, has been awarded the Department
of Education Minority Science Improvement grant. The grant,
entitled "Enhancement
of Interdisciplinary Science", begins in October of
2007, and lasts until September of 2010 for a total budget
of $476,000. Valerie also completed the FIRST program in
2003. (For the complete article
see: http://www.morehouse.edu/academics/bio/news.html.)
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| Program
Update
FIRST has accepted 12 candidates into the program for the
2008-2009 fiscal year - M. Berenice Duran, City
University of New York Graduate Center, Hunter College; David
Glover,
University of Alabama–Birmingham; Frederick Gregory, UCLA; Jerris
Raiford, Drew
Kohlhorst and Jamie
LaPrairie-Beale, Georgia State University; Juana
Mendenhall, Clark Atlanta University; Nela
Moffatt, Mayo Clinic Graduate School, Rochester,
MN; Darlene Mitrano, Tiffany Oliver and Jennifer
Wilhelm, Emory University; Kristy Wilson,
Purdue University. They
have very diverse research interests and have been placed in laboratories
in departments throughout Emory University and Emory School of
Public Health. Those departments
include Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry,
Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Cell Biology, Medicine-Digestive
Diseases Division, Infectious Diseases Division-Pediatrics, Biology,
Pharmacology, Hematology/Oncology in the Winship Cancer Institute,
and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Neurology Division.
All
fellowship positions for the 2008-2009 fiscal year have been
filled.
We will start accepting applications for the 2009-2010 fiscal
year beginning January 1, 2009. The deadline for receiving
all applications is March 1, 2009. Please contact FIRST@emory.edu
if you have any questions or need additional information.
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FIRST
Fellows Continue to Receive Faculty Appointments
(For the full list of appointments received by
FIRST fellows see
Job Placements of Graduates)
- Jennifer
Holzman, Ph.D.,
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Labs, Department
of Biology, Emory College - Begins August 1, 2008
- Robert
E. Pyatt, Ph.D., Assistant
Director of Cytogenetics/Molecular Genetics Laboratory
at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Assistant
Professor in the Department of Pathology at Ohio State
University - Begins May 1, 2008
Laurie Krug, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, SUNY - Stony Brook
University in Long Island, NY- Begins Dec. 1, 2008
- Irma Santoro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology in the
School of Mathematics and Science at Reinhardt College - Begins
August, 2008
- Jackie
Hoffman, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Department
of Poultry Science - Begins July, 2008
- Manning
Sabatier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Clayton
State University, Department of Health Fitness Management
- Began January 7, 2008
- Erin
Keen-Rhinehart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University
of California-Los Angeles in the Geffen Medical School, Department
of OBGYN - Began October 1, 2007
- Andrew
Benson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Georgia Gwinnett College, Department
of Biology - Begins August, 1, 2008
- Francisco
Cruz, Ph.D.,
Lecturer, Department of Biology, Georgia State University -
Began August, 2007
Other Positions:
- Michele
Doucette, R.D., Ph.D., Research Director,
America On the Move, University of Colorado Denver,
Center for Human Nutrition - Began June, 1, 2008
- Robyn
Woodbury, Ph.D.,
Principal Scientist Instructor, Department of Defense, Washington
DC - Began November 1, 2007
- Latarchal
Morton, Ph.D.,
Director of Learning Programs, Emory University - Began August,
2007
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| Annual
IRACDA Conference
The 2008 IRACDA
Conference was hosted by the SPIRE program at the University
of North Carolina from June 8-11, 2008. Dr. Engda Hagos
won a poster award (the honor of the highest quality research
presentation) during this year's conference in Chapel Hill. See http://spire.unc.edu for
more information.
The
next IRACDA conference will be hosted by the University of California,
San Francisco. The dates of this meeting
jave been set for June 7-10, 2009. More information will
follow shortly.
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FIRST
Fellows Seminar Series
The FIRST Seminar
Series is a peer
research conference where fellows give mini-seminars about their
individual research. It is also a forum in which fellows can practice
an upcoming lecture for a particular course or practice a job talk
prior to going out on job interviews. The most senior fellows generally
begin the series of talks each year since they are further along
in their research. Fellows are encouraged to take notes and give
their colleagues feedback as to their general knowledge of the subject
and presentation.
The conferences
will be held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 12:00 - 1:00
PM. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.
Seminar
Schedule 2007-2008
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