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Contents
A Note from the Collaborative Director
Undergraduate Research: Adjusting to Life at a Liberal Arts College
2012-2013 McNair Scholars
Fall-Summer Collaborative Grants
Convention Spotlight
NCUR
AACR
- Kaela Gedda
- Jens Paasen
- Gretchen Panzer
- Hannah Schmitt
- Luanne Spence
- Sarah Titus
Collaborative Research Stories
Important Dates
May 4, 2012 Student Academic Travel Grant and Attendee Grant applications due
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American Association for Cancer Research Reflection
Shanna Dennis
Biology Major, Chemistry Minor
Being a part
of the 2012 American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting was an
experience I will never forget. Saturday and Sunday the group members and I
attended seminars and presentations about numerous aspects of research being
done on cancer. Some of them were solely to let others know what they had
found, others were to teach new techniques, and others were to educate on new
universal knowledge in the field. There were moments when material was far
beyond my knowledge of cancer, and others where I franticly wrote notes about
things I fully understood, and could use to help improve our specific research.
One of the
seminars we attended was on writing scientific papers and getting them
published. This was immensely insightful for me personally, because I am
currently writing two scientific papers for classes and will be doing an
independent study next year where I will have to write yet another. I learned
so much on the dos and don’ts of writing and publishing, and hope that I can
apply my recent knowledge to my studies here at St. Norbert. It was also
interesting that we were able to hear from such distinguished members of the
scientific community; editors of publications like Nature, Elizabeth Blackburn
who won a Nobel Prize and others. It was a real privilege to hear from them.
My favorite
part of the conference was presenting the research we had done in a poster
session on Monday morning. It was very rewarding to see that all of our
research had come together to this point and others in the scientific community
were there to critique and discuss it with us. Everyone there is an expert on
cancer which means that there is so much to learn from everyone especially
those who work on similar cells or treatments. I learned of new pathways that
we could look into with the current research we are doing and we even learned
of ways to apply our research to three dimensional cell cultures to get a
better idea of how our treatments would work on an actual tumor. I enjoyed
learning from this experience and collaborating with others in the field to
better our research here.
Faculty
Sponsor: Dr. Russ Feirer
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