Molly Uyeda discusses her experiences at UCLA along with her inspirations in life that helped get her accepted to Stanford University, where she will pursue a Ph.D in stem cell research.
Three UCLA Amgen Scholars were awarded the Dean’s Prize Medal of Excellence at the 2015 UCLA Science Poster Day on May 12, 2015. Each student continued their Amgen Scholar project and presented it to faculty judges. Please congratulate Timothy Chai (2014), James Haggerty-Skeans (2014), and Rebecca McGillivary (2013)!
Harding Luan was selected for the Gruber Science Fellowship at Yale University in 2014. This fellowship is the most prestigous award offered by Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to incoming science students. It recognizes the most highly ranked applicants to Yale PhD programs in life sciences, cosmology, and astrophysics.
What do you enjoy most about your internship? They really want to make sure the scholars understand what it means to be on track for a PhD.
Biochem Student Wins National Scholarship for Scientific Research – “Biju worked in the lab of Siavash Kurdistani, MD, associate professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Kurdistani studies the relationship between human genome compaction and diseases such as cancer.”
Timothy Chai receives 2014 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations!
Hunter Bennett, University of Washington Bioengineering senior and UCLA Amgen Scholars alumni (2012), was awarded the UW College of Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence for 2014. The Dean’s Medal is awarded to two College of Engineering graduating seniors students annually. He was also profiled by UW Today.
