North Dakota INBRE

March 9, 2010 - Jessica Meier, Paul Jilek and Jennifer Murray, undergraduates in Dr. Lynn Burgess' lab, won competitive travel awards to accompany Dr. Burgess to the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. They will attend a special program March 6-8, 2010. This award recognizes promising undergraduate science majors and informs them about the discipline of toxicology, opportunities in toxicology, and the preparation necessary for a research career. Other benefits of the program include participation in a scientific meeting and interaction with SOT member mentors and peers.

January 1, 2010 - Applications are available for summer 2010 undergraduate research programs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Short-Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) is funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. Its goal is to attract talented science undergraduates to graduate research careers in the environmental health sciences. The program provides a 10-week summer research lab experience. Research Experiences for UND Undergraduates (REFUNDU) enhances the INBRE initiative to attract talented basic and behavioral science undergraduates to professional careers in the health sciences. REFUNDU provides a 10-week summer research experience under the direction of selected faculty members at the medical school. For additional information or application forms, please click on the appropriate links above.

May 5, 2009 - An abstract entitled "Application of the Accelerated Leuckart Reaction to Substituted Benzaldehydes" submitted by Minot State University student Steven Lewis has been selected for the Council On Undergraduate Research (CUR) 2009 Posters on the Hill presentation May 5 in Washington, D.C. Lewis works in the lab of Mikhail Bobylev, Ph.D., an INBRE-funded researcher at Minot State. About 60 undergraduate students were selected from the entire country to present their research to members of Congress. The students and their faculty advisors will spend a day at the Capitol, first meeting with their state representatives and senators, and then presenting their research during the poster session. The goal of the event is to advance the cause of undergraduate research.

January 1, 2009 - A collaborative effort between North Dakota INBRE, Cankdeska Cikana Community College and the UND medical school's Center for Rural Health was included in an article in the Winter 2009 issue of North Dakota Medicine magazine. "First Aid for the Mind" highlights the suicide prevention efforts of Jacque Gray, Ph.D., assistant professor with the Center for Rural Health. Gray and Leander "Russ" McDonald, vice president of academic affairs at Cankdeska Cikana, teach students on the Spirit Lake Reservation about basic research, which ties in with the tribal suicide prevention program.