Undergraduate Research Awards for National Institutes of Health INBRE Scholars

Creighton is part of a statewide $17.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health—the INBRE (IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence) grant—aimed at increasing undergraduate research experiences and producing more scientists in the state. The annual Nebraska INBRE meeting was recently held with 17 Creighton students presenting and three winning awards.

This grant funds projects at eight primarily undergraduate institutions in Nebraska. Creighton had eight senior INBRE Scholars (Ellie Alberts, Emily Ekstrum, Emma Foley, Noah Greenwood, Hannah Ladwig, Greer Porter, Abe Saks, and Andrew Wegner) give poster presentations and nine junior INBRE Scholars give oral presentations (Alex Chen, Eva Doescher, Alessandra Kakish, Cassie Leuty, Hannah Pflum, Shawn Ramachandran, AJ Sheppard, Fauzan Siddiqui, and Ryan Ward). 

The faculty mentors for the University’s INBRE Scholars include: Lynne Dieckman, PhD, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry; James Fletcher, PhD, professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Clifford Gee, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Erin Gross, PhD, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Mike Nichols, PhD, professor of physics; Annemarie Shibata, PhD, professor of biology, and Julianne Soukup, PhD, professor of chemistry.

Creighton students won three of 10 awards presented! In the oral talks, Ramachandran and Kakish, both mentored by Soukup, received Honorable Mentions. In the poster presentations, Foley, mentored by Dieckman, received first prize.