Fred Hutch students earn national honors

Hutchinson Center graduate and undergraduate students fared well at recent national scientific conferences.

Jacquelyn Lang, a graduate student in the Basic Sciences Division's Biggins Lab, won first place and $1,500 for her presentation at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society national conference held in Anchorage, Alaska, in early November. Her poster, "Sumoylation of the budding yeast CENP-A," competed against 10 entries in the graduate poster session. Lang is in her second year of the joint Fred Hutch/University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology program.

SURP students win at SACNAS

Three interns from the Center’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program won awards at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science national conference held in Seattle in October.

Ohio University's Anna Nkrumah and Josh Onyango of Oakwood University received best poster presentation awards in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Dr. Carla Grandori in the Human Biology Division’s Galloway Lab mentored Nkrumah last summer, while Onyango worked in the Basic's Buck Lab. The SACNAS undergraduate student presentation award went to Mandy Collar of New Mexico State University, a former intern in Human Biology's Salama Lab.