Undergraduate Student Awards
URECA Researcher of the Month (2009): Kevin Knockenhausen, a senior in the Honors College majoring in biochemistry, was nationally honored with a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2009. Kevin participated in the Summer Research Institute of the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP); and in 2008 was a Fellow in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) summer program. Since May 2007, he has worked in the laboratory of Dr. Sanford Simon. Together with BME graduate student Katarzyna Sawicka, he is developing a transdermal anthrax vaccine that can deliver protective antigen through human skin. Kevin has presented his research off campus at the World Congress on In Vitro Biology in Tuscon, Arizona (June 2008) ; the Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference in Vancouver (August 2008); the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting (October 2008) in St. Louis, Missouri; and the Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (April 2009) in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the 2009 In Vitro Biology meeting to give a poster presentation, and also serves on two committees fo rthe Society for In Vitro Biology. On-campus, he presented at the annual URECA research poster Celebration, and was one of three featured student speakers at a recent symposium organized by the Stony Brook Young Investigators (YIR) & the Undergraduate Biochemistry Society. Kevin will be secretary of the Undergraduate Biochemistry Society (2009-2010) and will help edit YIR's online journal next year.
First Annual Stony Brook Young Investigators Review & Undergraduate Biochemistry Society Young Investigators Symposium - May 5, 2009
Raymond Camilleri, an undergraduate in Dr. Ute Moll's lab, won first prize at the symposium.
Kevin Knockenhauer, an undergraduate student in Dr. Sanford Simon's lab, was one of three students chosen to speak at the symposium.
Undergraduate Research Fellowships (June 1 - August 7, 2009)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute:
Sumaira Zamurrad (Simon lab)
Alan Shteyman (Simon lab)
Nicole Napolitano (Simon lab)
Allison Goldberg (Shroyer lab): presented research in several national meetings, including the 2009 AACR NCI EORTC annual meeting on Molecular Targets cand Cancer Therapeutics in Boston.
