UW-Madison hosted the annual Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony on May 3. This ceremony served as an opportunity to celebrate tremendously talented undergraduates for their academic excellence, public service, and undergraduate research. Six undergraduate students were recognized for the research they did alongside Department of Surgery faculty.
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships
Generous grants from the Hilldale Foundation and the Wisconsin State Legislature provide for awards of $3,000 each to undergraduate students and $1,000 to their faculty/staff advisors to work in collaboration on research projects.
- Veronica Goveas, Biology
- Advisor: Michelle Ciucci, PhD
- Project: “Exercise and Neurotrophic Factors in Brain, Tongue, and Larynx in the Pink1-/- Rat Model of Parkinson Disease”
- Tanay Nagar, Computer Sciences, Philosophy
- Advisor: Sarah Jung, PhD
- Project: “Decoding Bias in Letters of Recommendation: A Word Embeddings Approach”
Sophomore Research Fellowships
Generous grants from the Brittingham Wisconsin Trust, the Kemper K. Knap Bequest, and the Provost’s Office provide for awards of $2,500 each to undergraduate students and $500 to their faculty/staff advisors to work in collaboration on research projects.
- Zoe Gonzales, Neurobiology, Psychology
- Advisor: Carrie Thiessen, MD, PhD
- Project: “Assessing the Impact of Living Kidney Donor Status on Donor-Recipient Relational Closeness”
- Katelyn Jacobs, Biochemistry
- Advisor: Susan Thibeault, PhD, CCC-SLP
- Project: “Effects of Psychosocial Stress on Epithelial Markers in the Larynx”
- Saira Shah, Molecular and Cell Biology
- Advisor: Matthew Brown, PhD
- Project: “Assessing In Vivo Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses for Cancer Immunotherapy and SARS-CoV2”
- Matt Shen, Biochemistry
- Advisor: Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly, MD
- Project: “The Effects of BMAL1-Rescue in the Development of Pancreatic Cancer”