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The USC Center for Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) administers an NIH-Funded program geared toward increasing the number of minority students performing basic research in the life sciences. The Genomic Research Experience for Undergraduates (GREU) program funds students to work in faculty research labs. We have funds available to pay students to work up to 20 hours per week in your lab through the 2008-09 academic year and summer 2009. (Up to $10,000 per student per year.) More information about the program can be found at: http://cegs.usc.edu/academics/greu/GREU.html. Eligible students must be able to self-identify as either African-American, Hispanic or Latino, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander. If you have a current student who you think is eligible or know of any eligible students, please contact Dr. Steven Finkel at sfinkel@usc.edu.
Work by Katrina Edwards (MEB) and her group was featured in the 29 May issue of Nature (doi:10.1038/nature06899) (including an interview with Katrina for “Abstractions” on p. xi). See also http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/ Your fearless leader, Doug Capone, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union at a ceremony at the AGU Spring meeting in Ft. Lauderdale on 29 May. A 2008-2009 Zumberge Interdisciplinary Award was made to Steven Finkel and Katrina Edwards, biological sciences along with Steven Goodman, School of Dentistry to develop an Interdisciplinary Program on Microbiology. Wiebke Ziebis of biological sciences received a 2008–09 individual award from USC’s James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund for her project “Animal-Sediment-Microbe Interactions at Pacific Methane Seeps.” Oscar Aparicio of biological sciences, won a USC-Mellon Mentoring Award for mentoring graduate students. Steven Finkel of biological sciences, Albert Herrera of biological sciences, won USC-Mellon Mentoring Awards for mentoring undergraduates. Michael Waterman, University Professor, holder of the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences in USC College and professor of biological sciences, computer science and mathematics, received the Presidential Medallion, USC’s highest honor, at the Academic Honors Convocation April 7. In the citation presented to him at the event, Waterman was lauded for “interdisciplinary insights and talent [that] have been instrumental in placing USC in the vanguard of genomics research.”
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