FSU-RISE Scholar Wins at National Research Conference

from Dr. Sherrice Allen, Department of Natural Sciences

The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) is an annual conference organized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. In its seventh year, ABRCMS continues to be the premier professional conference for biomedical students attracting approximately 2,600 individuals, including 1,650 undergraduate students, 280 graduate students, 30 postdoctoral scientists and 750 faculty and administrators. ABRCMS is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and provide faculty mentors/advisors with resources for facilitating students’ success. Students attending the conference are all pursuing advanced training in the biomedical sciences, and many have conducted independent research.

This year the conference was held in Austin, Texas, November 7-11, 2007. Ernest Edward Hooper, a senior, chemistry major at Fayetteville State University, was honored with an award for research he conducted in the Department of Natural Sciences, at FSU, under the direction of Dr. Cevdet Akbay. The title of his project was “Determining the partial specific volume of novel gemini surfactants.” In addition to Mr. Hooper, eight FSU-RISE scholars also presented posters at the conference. Since 2003, a total of seven FSU-RISE scholars have been awarded for their outstanding research at the conference, but Mr. Hooper is the only presentation winner that conducted research at FSU.

During the four-day conference over 1,100 students participated in poster and oral presentations in 10 sub-disciplines in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. All undergraduate student presentations were judged and those receiving the highest scores, in each scientific discipline and educational level, were given awards. Mr. Hooper represents one of the top 84 undergraduate poster/oral presenters awarded $250 for their exceptional presentations.

The 2008 ABRCMS has been scheduled for November 5-8, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. For more information visit the conference website at www.abrcms.org.
 

Meeting Notice

from Jeffery Womble, Office of Public Relations

Two meetings of the search committee for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Police and Public Safety have been announced.  The first meeting will be held Thursday, November 29, at 3:30 p.m. in the Room 229 of the Rudolph Jones Student Center.  The next meeting will be held Thursday, December 6, at 3:30 p.m. in the same location.

For more information, call (910) 672-1211 or (910) 672-1474.