Undergraduate research poster sessions to be held @SMHS on July 30

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the annual Summer Undergraduate Research poster session on Thursday, July 30, at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS).

The one-day event will be held from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the second floor of the UND SMHS building in Grand Forks and actually will feature posters from several programs: research connected to UND’s National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs; the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF); and the Summer Undergraduate Biomedical Research Experience (SUBRE) program.

The latter program is embedded within the School’s North Dakota IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (ND INBRE) program, which is housed within the Department of Pathology and is supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under grant no. P20GM103442.

For the past 10 weeks, 45 students from UND, as well as from colleges in North Dakota, Minnesota, and across the nation, have conducted research. Students worked shoulder-to-shoulder with their mentor scientists from the UND Department of Biology and the UND Departments of Pathology and Biomedical Sciences.  One of the goals of the summer research programs is to provide students with the opportunity to work directly with an established research scientist.  An additional goal is to bolster the supply of biological and biomedical research scientists and healthcare professionals. At the end of the summer, students present their research in an on-campus poster session.

Funding for the students came from a variety of organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the NSF, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Office of the Dean at the UND SMHS.