ACCP Foundation Futures Grant Awarded to Melissa Kudlak, SURF 2022
Melissa Kudlak, a SURF 2022 participant and current Rutgers Pharmacy student, has been awarded a competitive research grant from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Foundation. The title of her project is Elucidating Flavored E-cigarette-Induced Pulmonary Toxicity using Precision Cut Lung Slices. Melissa will be performing this research under the mentorship ...
Astha Adroja Receives Award at Annual SSR Conference
Astha Adroja, a 2023 SURF undergrad fellow and an EMSOP PharmD Honors Research Program student, received the Lalor Foundation Merit Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) at the annual SSR meeting in Ottawa, Canada, July 11-14. Her abstract entitled “Targeting proprotein convertases and follicle rupture to ...
Midori Flores – SURF 2021 – Receives SOT 2022 Perry J. Gehring Diversity Student Travel Award
This year’s SOT Perry J. Gehring Diversity Student Travel Award was awarded to Midori Flores. Ms. Flores, a 2021 SURFer, is currently pursuing a BS in environmental science at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The award recognizes an undergraduate or graduate student who was selected for the Undergraduate ...
Kevin Ozkuyumcu – SURF 2020 – Wins Double Honors at SOT
Kevin Ozkuyumcu, 2020 SURF participant and Class of 2023 in Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, was recently awarded one of sixteen undergraduate research awards from the Society of Toxicology (SOT). Along with the award was an all-expense paid trip to the SOT 61st Annual Meeting and ToxExpo in San ...
Tanvi Banota – SURF 2020 – Receives SOT Undergraduate Research Award
The Society of Toxicology (SOT) is pleased to announce that Tanvi Banota, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, has been awarded the 2021 SOT Undergraduate Research Award. This prestigious award is conferred to outstanding pre-baccalaureate students whose research abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the ...
Takeaways from a Virtual Undergraduate Internship
The COVID-19 pandemic will leave its mark on the design and delivery of toxicology training for years to come. The challenges faced by the need for remote learning and social distancing have inspired reflection on existing teaching approaches as well as innovation in how toxicology educators engage the next generation ...
Tanvi Banota – SURF 2020 – Receives Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Tanvi Banota, a rising junior at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences majoring in cell biology and neuroscience, is the recipient of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for her academic excellence. Considered the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering, the Goldwater Scholarship, which honors ...
Sabina London – SURF 2017 – Featured in the New York Times
Science Was Her Lifeline. Now She Helps Other Girls Discover It. The STEM summer camp that Sabina London began in high school has grown to serve 17 states. Sabina London, 21, is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in the biological basis of behavior, also known as neuroscience ...