UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- As part of Lloyd Huck's endowment to the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, a new fund – the Huck Institutes Graduate Enrichment Fund – was created in 2013 to provide research support for Penn State students in the Huck Institutes' intercollege graduate degree programs. Specifically, the fund provides financial support for research efforts – as much as $5,000 per student, awarded annually – to graduate students in their third and fourth years.
All student applicants are required to submit – in the style of an National Institutes of Health (NIH) or National Science Foundation proposal – a three-page grant proposal of their research plan, including a detailed budget and a summary budget justification, which is reviewed by a faculty committee based on NIH peer-review standards.
Awardees 2013
The awardees for 2013 are as follows:
-- Marta Byrska-Bishop (cell and developmental biology)
-- Lauren Chaby (neuroscience)
-- Emily Finch (immunology and infectious diseases)
-- Andrew Fister (genetics)
-- Yurong Gao (neuroscience)
-- Sooyeon (Jenny) Lee (physiology)
-- Carrie Lewis (cell and developmental biology)
-- Shu Li (plant biology)
-- Yang Liu (bioinformatics and genomics)
-- Elyse Munoz (genetics)
-- David Watts (ecology)
More information about the Graduate Enrichment Fund is available on the Huck Institutes website.