DePauw University students conducting research will have access to cutting-edge light and electron microscopes as they study regeneration biology, wound…
First: Congratulations are in order to Gabby Coffing ('18); SRF and DPU's newest, Barry M. Goldwater National Scholarship Winner! and to Purva Patel ('18); our Honorable Mention winner! and Liz Aguilar ('18); National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award Winner!
Calendar of Events:
Sept. 13: 6:00-7:30 pm: Join the Sustainability and Environmental Fellows students for a Monarch butterfly tagging event at the DePauw Nature Park. Hosted by Indiana Wildlife Foundation. Nets provided.
September 17: Anyone participating in the Annual Science Research and Practicum Poster session--your poster title, abstract and other information is due today! (Session is Monday, October 8th)
Sept 20: 11:30am: Women in Science Luncheon. Guest speaker: Elizabeth Medlock Kakaley, PhD (DPU'11/Biochem.SRF)--Environmental Toxicologist....rsvp needed to scifellows@depauw.edu for lunch reservation
Sept. 20; 4:00 pm; Julian auditorium: E.Medlock Kakaley,PhD; Univ. of N.Carolina-Chapel Hill; US Environmental Protection Agency; will give a talk: Lights, camera, activation: Applying bioluminescence technologies to emerging environmental toxicant detection.
Sept. 21; 11:30 am; Lunch; Julian Auditorium; Learn about the field of Environmental Toxicology; rsvp required to scifellows@depauw.edu
October 13-21: Fall Break at DPU
October 22: Deadline for applying via Lateral Entry into the SRF program. This is open to current 1st year DPU students only.
Science Research Fellows
An honors program for outstanding students of science who are looking for opportunities to have significant hands-on research experience as an undergraduate.
Highlights
Regenerative heart tissue in fishes
Under Prof. Pascal LaFontant, DePauw students are involved in cutting edge research to find regenerative heart tissue in fishes
2008 graduate Sam Rund's research on mosquito's ability to smell at University of Notre Dame got published in the journal Scientific Reports. Rund is now a fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
Megan May awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The fellowship will provide May with a three-year annual stipend of $30,000 plus a $12,000 cost of education allowance at the graduate program of her choosing. She is the third DePauw senior in the last four years to receive the honor.
"This research gave me the opportunity to really contribute to the field, and feel like I can actually make an impact as an undergrad.”
Bringing Innovation to Classrooms
2008 graduate Sarah Carlson was featured by Salt Lake City CBS affiliate KUTV for her innovative teaching methods in the classroom at Brighton University School
Kate Mittendorf '10 published in the Journal of American Chemical Society
SRF alumnus Kate Mittendorf, now in a PhD program at Vanderbilt University, publishes in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Kate is studying membrane proteins in the lab of Charles Saunders.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja4114374
This is Kate's 3rd publication since graduating DePauw.
Karl Koehler '08 published in Journal Nature
A 2008 graduate, and now a Ph.D student at Medical Neuroscience Graduate School at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Koehler's article is titled "Generation of inner ear sensory epithelia from pluripotent stem cells in 3D culture" .
SRF students begin learning and experiencing authentic scientific research in a wide variety of disciplines from their very first year. Our students go on to major in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Biology, Kinesiology, Computer Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, or Psychology and Neuroscience. They collaborate with DePauw faculty in summer-long, on-campus research, and they experience research internships at leading facilities across the globe.
Interested in Joining SRF?
The application is open! We are currently accepting new applications from both current first year DePauw students (this is called our lateral entry process) and current high school seniors in the graduating Class of 2019. Lateral Entry applicants (current first year DPU students) can apply between now and Oct. 22, 2018 and
beginning September, 2018--any high school senior (in the high school graduating class of 2019) can apply. The SRF program applications will be open by September, 2018 with a deadline of of Feb. 1, 2019. We'd love to have your application earlier than Feb. 1st so we can begin the process of review.
