NORAC Pharma Job Opportunity

Learning Lab Intern Opportunity – Vertex

Congratulations, Jerika Chiong!

We are so very proud that the National Science Foundation has selected Jerika Chiong from the Tezcan Lab as the recipient of the 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship! Jerika is a Chemistry major from Revelle College. We wish her all the best as she will be starting the Chemistry PhD program at Stanford this coming fall quarter!

Jerika Chiong (‘19) is a fourth-year undergraduate studying general chemistry at UC San Diego. She has been involved in research projects since her freshman year and currently studies the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks in Akif Tezcan’s lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. As a research student, Chiong had the opportunity to co-author a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). As president of American Chemical Society-Student Affiliates (ACS-SA) on campus, Chiong’s found a passion for participating in outreach and extracurricular activities, community work that will be fueled by her NSF fellowship. “I really want to get more involved with supporting women in STEM,” said Chiong, who hopes to “hit the ground running” with new research projects while acclimating to the environment of a new university. While she remains unsure of the specifics of her future research, she is interested in materials chemistry. Chiong envisions starting out in the research and development industry and perhaps attaining a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) in order to shift toward the managerial side of the industry. — http://ow.ly/U8O150uEtz1

Congratulations, Ryjul Stokes!

We proudly announce that the National Science Foundation has selected Ryjul Stokes from the Cohen Lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as the recipient of the 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship!

Recruitment for Study- Volunteers Needed

The Morimoto Lab in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department is looking for volunteers interested in participating in a study of a laparoscopic training system.

The study will take place in the Center for the Future of Surgery. The volunteer will be asked to train on his or her own time using one of three possible training methods. A basic skill level assessment will be performed before and after the training period. The purpose of the study is to compare the use of the new interface with standard training methods in order to develop more engaging and cost-effective training solutions.

There will be no compensation. Instead, through this study, volunteers will get to experience testing a novel training interface. For more information on how to sign up, please send inquiries to morimotolab@eng.ucsd.edu. Your assistance in helping us meet our research goals would be greatly appreciated.

Signup here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rn7JQEuMkK_kv3n-JEwBwpvKCI5iBehnvbIrtqodScw/edit#gid=0