Chemistry and Biochemistry News

The faculty and staff of the Chemistry department are happy to welcome all the Mustangs back to campus! We hope you have a fun and successful semester!

This summer, Biochemistry senior, Shelbie Baird, participated in an REU, an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates, at Virginia Commonwealth University. Shelbie had an amazing summer. She is shown here at the final poster session. According to VCU: “Final poster session of the 2019 REU cohort: We had a great discussion of interdisciplinary projects conducted by a highly motivated group of undergraduate students!!!”

This summer, Biochemistry major Laura Gerrick was the Stevenson student chosen to participate in the Nathan Schaper Summer Intern Program. This program is a 10 week summer internship doing cancer research at the University of Maryland. Laura worked under the direction of Dr. Alexander Drohat studying DNA mismatch repair. She presented the results of her summer work at the end of summer research symposium. Several successful Biochemistry alumni got their start in this same internship program!

This summer, Biochemistry major Laura Gerrick was the Stevenson student chosen to participate in the Nathan Schaper Summer Intern Program. This program is a 10 week summer internship doing cancer research at the University of Maryland. Laura worked under the direction of Dr. Alexander Drohat studying DNA mismatch repair. She presented the results of her summer work at the end of summer research symposium. Several successful Biochemistry alumni got their start in this same internship program!

Our summer research program concluded with a day of research talks as our students presented their summer research projects to peers and Stevenson faculty and staff. It was a wonderful day and summer for all of the S3RP research students and their faculty mentors.