Source: Marcia Locke, 785-532-6705, marcia@k-state.edu
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News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MORE THAN 40 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS RECEIVE K-STATE CANCER RESEARCH AWARDS
MANHATTAN -- More than 40 undergraduate students at Kansas State University will receive funding for cancer research from K-State's Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.
The cancer research award program was created to promote undergraduate participation in laboratory research and to encourage students to consider careers in research and medicine.
"We are helping train the next generation of cancer researchers and medical workers," said Rob Denell, director of the Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research and a university distinguished professor of biology.
The award program, which is open to K-State undergraduate students interested in working in cancer-relevant laboratories, provides ,000 stipends to as many as 50 students a year and ,000 to their faculty mentors for research expenses. Awards will be presented to the students at a banquet Friday, April 17.
Students applied for the awards in the fall by co-writing research proposals with faculty mentors affiliated with the cancer center. The winners conduct the research in the mentors' laboratories during the spring semester.
"These students work closely with faculty on real research projects and some will undoubtedly go on to be top scientists and physicians," Denell said.
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Garret Seiler, sophomore in biology, Goddard.
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Corey Wells, sophomore in chemical engineering, Halstead; Colette Robinson, sophomore in chemistry, Horton.
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The Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research is committed to furthering the understanding of cancer by funding basic cancer research and supporting higher education, training and public outreach. It also provides other undergraduate scholarships, as well as awards to graduate and postdoctoral students and faculty to support their cancer research and training. The center's programs are funded through private gifts.
More information about the center is available at http://www.cancer.k-state.edu or by calling 785-532-6705.
