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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:

RISE 2022 alum, Jailen Doyle recently presented at the 2023 Emerging National Researchers (ERN) Conference in Washington DC where she won the 1st Place prize for the Chemistry and Chemical Sciences undergraduate poster category!

By: Sonal Gahlawat

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the School of Graduate Studies is delighted to showcase the accomplishments of our current students and program alumni. For this JANUARY 2023 SPOTLIGHT feature, we are excited to showcase RISE and SUPER-GRAD fellow alum, Maricely Ramírez-Hernández.

Read below to find out more about Maricely. Thank you, Maricely for sharing your experiences with the SGS community!

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PhD Candidate 

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.

SGS SUPER-GRAD fellow Erika McCarthy co-authored a recent paper that was featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry entitled RNA Electrostatics: How Ribozymes Engineer Active Sites to Enable Catalysis.