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News release prepared by: Jennifer Torline, 785-532-0847, jtorline@k-state.edu
Friday, April 1, 2011
GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP HELPS K-STATE JUNIOR CONTINUE STUDYING HIS FAVORITE SUBJECT: SCIENCE
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University student and 2011 Barry M. Goldwater scholar Gage 1xbet sports betting has always loved science.
In elementary school, he remembers asking for microscopes and scientific tools for presents, while his friends were interested professional baseball players. His interest in science continued all the way to college, where he decided to study biochemistry and become involved in undergraduate 1xbet sports betting at K-State.
1xbet sports betting , a junior in biochemistry and premedicine, Prairie Village, is now being honored as K-State's 67th Goldwater Scholarship recipient. The national scholarship is given to outstanding students who plan to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.
"Science has been my forte since as long as I can remember," 1xbet sports betting said. "Nothing is more interesting to me than the function of the natural world. It's unendingly complex and there are problems that you will never be able to solve in a hundred lifetimes."
The Goldwater Scholarship provides up to ,500 annually for students' educational expenses in their remaining one or two years of undergraduate study. This year, 275 scholars were chosen from a field of 1,095 applicants. K-State ranks first in the nation among 500 public universities, with 67 Goldwater scholars.
"Gage Brummer's dedication to undergraduate 1xbet sports betting since his freshman year is truly noteworthy, and we're proud of his accomplishment in becoming a Goldwater scholar," said K-State President Kirk Schulz. "This kind of undergraduate 1xbet sports betting involvement, and the opportunities it can create for students like Gage, is exactly the sort of value-added experience we hope to create as we work toward our goal of becoming a top 50 public 1xbet sports betting university by 2025."
Since his freshman year, Brummer has been performing undergraduate 1xbet sports betting under Gary Conrad, university distinguished professor of biology. Brummer has spent two years investigating the underlying causes of keratoconus, an eye disease that affects the cornea. He is looking at the current clinical treatment and trying to make it more effective and less harmful to patients.
"Current treatment requires you to expose the eye to UV light for 30 minutes, which kills the cells in the cornea," 1xbet sports betting said. "It takes about six months for the eye to heal, but it's currently the best treatment. The second part of my project looks at how this treatment works."
Brummer has helped develop a new pretreatment for the eye disease that uses vitamin B6, a nontoxic chemical. His treatment could allow for less exposure to toxic UV radiation. He recently submitted his 1xbet sports betting for publication and is waiting to hear back from the journal. Brummer will present this work at the international Association for 1xbet sports betting in Vision and Ophthalmology, meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in early May.
Brummer also is working on a second 1xbet sports betting project under Christopher Culbertson, associate professor of chemistry. For the past year, Brummer has been working on microfluidic devices, which measure the behavior, control and manipulation of fluids. Brummer and Culbertson are trying to develop a new analytical technique that has numerous biological applications, such as rapid single cell analysis.
Brummer's 1xbet sports betting in microfluidics helped him land an internship at the Scripps 1xbet sports betting Institute in Florida, where he will spend the upcoming summer working as a 1xbet sports betting assistant. Previously, Brummer had two summer internships at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Salsbury Cove, Maine. He also was awarded the best student presentation at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Student 1xbet sports betting Symposium in 2009.
In September 2010 he helped teach a course on renal physiology 1xbet sports betting techniques to medical students and doctoral students at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory under John Forrest, professor of medicine at Yale University. Brummer will return to help teach two more classes this summer before beginning his internship in Florida. At K-State, he has been a teaching assistant for Biology 198 and a lab instructor for Chemistry 1. He is currently a lab instructor for Honors Chemistry 2.
1xbet sports betting plans to study abroad in Germany before graduating from K-State. After graduating, he will attend medical school and pursue a combined doctorate of medicine and doctoral degree.
"After medical school I'm planning on conducting 1xbet sports betting and working in a clinical setting in a low-income area of the world," he said. "I want to gain some perspective on the world."
Brummer has also is a Mark Chapman Scholar and a Kansas Institutional Development Awards Network of Biomedical 1xbet sports betting Excellence Undergraduate 1xbet sports betting Scholar. He received a June Sherrid Cancer 1xbet sports betting Scholarship and a Terry C. Johnson Center 1xbet sports betting Scholarship. An Eagle Scout, he graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School in 2008 and is the son of John and Amy Brummer, Prairie Village.