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​Past SRI Summer Research Award Winners
2016 SRI Award Winner: HyeRim Han
U3 Microbiology & Immunology, Szyf Lab
Hello, everyone! My name is HyeRim Han and I'm a fourth-year student in Microbiology and Immunology. I've always loved research and this year, thanks to SRI, I was able to work in Professor Moshe Szyf's lab on wild-type and knockout Treg mice cells. This was a summer filled with identifying various regions of methylated sites of DNA, extracting DNA, converting DNA, amplifying relevant regions of DNA with PCR, and observing them through gel electrophoresis. It was PCR and lots and lots of agarose gel-making! Research always gives me so much joy and I would seriously encourage people to join research as it is an incredible opportunity to learn and do something that you might love! My supervisor, Elad, was amazing as he supported and guided me every step of the way. I would like to thank SRI for helping me find this position and spend my summer in such a productive and fun way :)
2015 SRI Award Winner: Nicolas Botero
Harnad Lab
Winning the SRI award has led to me to fruitful and satisfying experience assisting Dr. Harnad in his research. I have learned how to apply the knowledge I've acquired throughout my classes, which is very gratifying, but perhaps, more importantly, I've also started to develop many hands-on skills that would have been harder to learn otherwise. From experimental design, data analysis, and programming to the physical handling of EEG equipment and the more universal organizational abilities necessary to help run experiments with various participants under differing time constraints, this internship has provided me with an opportunity to both learn a varied set of skills and to understand my relative competence among them. After the SRI internship, I was offered a position at the lab for the upcoming school year. I now will be able to complete the honors program in Cognitive Science by using the lab as my research project, which I honestly would never have imagined happening a year ago.
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