Congratulations to Courtney McDermott who has has been selected for the University of Utah Rising Star in Neuroscience Symposium. This program seeks to provide career development and mentorship for exceptional late-stage graduate students in neuroscience, with a strong focus on spotlighting scientists from under-represented minority groups. Activities at the multi-day workshop in May include:

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the School of Graduate Studies is delighted to announce that Kirsten Allen, a RISE alum, was recently named an inaugural 2023 QUAD fellow . This scholarship program, in its first year, is designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists as an initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.

Congratulations to Leelabati Biswas, a MD/PhD Candidate from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the 2022 winner of the American Medical Association (AMA) Research Challenge!

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the School of Graduate Studies is delighted to highlight some recent accomplishments of Research Intensive Summer Experience (RISE) alumni.

Congratulations to the following RISE Scholars:

Katya Echazarreta

Congratulations to the three Aaron Shatkin Award winners from fall 2022. The award recognizes outstanding graduate students who have excelled in their research and coursework:

Kaiden Power
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
From the lab of Maureen Barr

Stephania Guzman
Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
From the lab of Moshmi Bhattacharya

Iva Salamon
Neuroscience
From the lab of Roko Rasin

Maricely Ramírez-Hernández was awarded the Graduate Oral Presentation Materials Science category at the SACNAS NDiSTEM conference held in San Juan, Puerto Rico October 26- 29, 2022. Maricely presented the work she has been doing under the guidance of Prof. Tewodros "Teddy" Asefa on the repurposing of anthelmintics for bactericidal properties. Maricely is a RISE 2017 alum and a 2018 SUPER-Grad Fellow.

SGS SUPER-GRAD fellow Jennifer Guzman Pachardo was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in the 2022 award cycle. Jennifer is a Summer 2018 RISE alum and 2021-2022 SUPER-GRAD fellow.

Congratulations to Courtney McDermott, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Manny DiCicco-Bloom’s lab, on receiving the prestigious NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award. Courtney is the first Neuroscience student at Rutgers University to achieve this award!

We asked Courtney to discuss her current research and goals, and share her grant application experience: 

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JGPT PhD Students Zakiyah Henry and Rulaiha Taylor were selected for the Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP).

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