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St. Jude National Undergraduate Research Symposium (NURS)

St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences invites you to participate in the St. Jude National Undergraduate Research Symposium (NURS) to be held June 14-17, 2017 at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. This competitive academic and professional development event allows undergraduate students from U.S. institutions to present their own research, in addition […]

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New UROP Director

Dr. Paul Lipton, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience in the College of Arts and Sciences, will head UROP, effective August 2014. Read the BU Today Article Here An accomplished researcher with interests in systems neuroscience and science education, Dr. Lipton first joined the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience in 2007 and has overseen its […]

Student Published

Colin Averill, a former UROP student and technician with Adrien Finzi in Biology, was first author on a paper in Nature. Colin is currently a PhD student in Plant, Microbial, and Ecosystem Ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. The article can be found at PubMed. Averill C, Turner BL & Finzi AC. 2014. […]

UROP Student Sherry Prasad Wins Poster Award

Sherry Prasad, a UROP-supported undergraduate who has been working with Dr. Valentina Perissi in Biochemistry at the BU Medical School, recently won a 2nd place award in the Basic Research category at the 8th Annual Symposium of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham, MA (December 6, 2013). Sherry’s poster was entitled “Investigating the role of […]

2nd Annual Northeast Beckman Scholar Symposium

Boston University hosted the 2nd Annual Northeast Beckman Scholar Symposium on Saturday, February 26th, 2011. Beckman Scholars from Boston University, Brandeis, College of the Holy Cross, Smith, and Yale presented their research projects at the Symposium. We thank all attendees for their contributions to this symposium, and we hope to see some of you at […]