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EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS

2009 NSF REU Cellular Engineering Program

Click  here to view photos from the 2009 Poster Session for HHMI, NSF REU and NSF RET.

Click here to view lab photos.

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Dr. Jennifer West, Chair of Bioengineering and Past Director of IBB, greets the NSF REU interns at the Orientation Breakfast.

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Lisa Blinn, Assoc. Dir. of IBB, provides the NSF REU interns with a personal tour of the campus.

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NSF REU interns, Kristin Darwin and Neal Bennett, enjoy lunch with their faculty advisors and mentors.

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The NSF REU interns visit MD Anderson Cancer Center (along with the HHMI interns).

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NSF REU interns enjoy some downtime with the HHMI interns at Willy's Pub on Rice campus.

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The NSF REU interns are provided with a Lab Safety Training course.

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NSF REU interns, Kristine Gonzales and Raul Villarreal, visit with mentor Michael Cuchiara.

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Dr. Stacey Kalovidouris, Executive Dir. of IBB, lectures the NSF REU interns on "Preparing a scientific poster."

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Dr. Amy Vollmer speaks to the NSF REU interns on "Undergraduate research in biology: projects beyond my imagination."

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Dr. John Olson talks to the NSF REU interns on "Recombinant hemoglobin is the ultimate starting material for all Hb-based blood substitutes."

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The NSF REU interns take part in welcoming the Milby/Yes/Harmony high school student interns at a dinner hosted by IBB's Director, Dr. Yousif Shamoo.

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Dr. Peter Lwigale presents his talk on "Semaphorin3A guidance of neural crest cells during eye development," at a weekly lunch seminar for the NSF REU interns.

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Dr. Jane Grande-Allen discusses heart valves during an NSF REU intern weekly lunch seminar.

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The NSF REU interns enjoy some down time by visiting the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Cockrell Butterfly Center with the HHMI interns.

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Dr. Jennifer West leads the NSF REU intern weekly lunch seminar on "Biomimetic Materials in Vascular Tissue Engineering."

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Dr. Junghae Suh discusses "Working at the Interface: drug delivery, nanomedicine, biomedical imaging, tissue engineering and synthetic biology," at the NFS REU intern weekly lunch seminar.

Click here to view photos from the 2007 & 2008 NSF REU Program.