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The application deadlines for graduate fellowships are fast approaching! The early fall deadlines sometimes catch students off guard -- I'm hoping you will be able to share our information with any undergraduates considering graduate school, as well as any current graduate students in STEM.

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Competitive robotics is sweeping across our state!  Last year over 500 teams competed in 12 unique programs, impacting more than 5,000 West Virginia students.  But, some students are still being left behind.  As of today, there are 19 counties with no robotics teams, and now you have a chance to make a real difference in the lives of our children! 

The AmeriCorps Program, High Rocks Educational Corporation, Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, Fairmont State University, and NASA’s IV&V Program have partnered together to bring competitive robotics programs to every county in West Virginia. 
If you are motivated to help students, educators, and our state while having fun, then please consider applying for one of our two full-time positions.  Through AmeriCorps, you will volunteer for one year to work with the NASA IV&V Educator Resource Center to recruit and train new teams, conduct scrimmages and tournaments, and help build a pipeline for students to turn their passion for robotics into a career path. 

The Society of Toxicology is offering a travel award to bright undergraduate researchers who are performing research in the broad field of toxicology.  The competitive needs-based award is to offset costs of attending the national SOT meeting in March; this year in Baltimore MD. Students are to apply to the Regional Chapter first where they are screened and chosen to compete in the national competition. 

Registration for the 58th Annual Society of Toxicology and ToxExpo is open now and interested parties can visit  the Society of Toxicology website for registration details. 

Applications are now open for the 2018-19 NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium’s Undergraduate Student Fellowships. At the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, up to 10 students who desire a career in STEM can get $1,000 to pursue a faculty-advised research project. More details and the application

Please note: students must be U.S. citizens, have a GPA 3.0 or better and must have a faculty member willing to serve as their research advisor. Female and minority students are strongly encouraged to apply.

Congratulations to our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place poster winners in each of the six categories at the Second Annual Undergraduate Spring Symposium (2018) held on Saturday April 14 at WVU! Our winners are given below.

1st Place: Energy Literacy in Agricultural Education Students in West Virginia. Hannah Schantz,*Brieanna Hughes* and Jessica Blythe(Hannah is an Agricultural and Extension Education major from Fallston, MD. Hannah was a participant in WVU’s Research Apprenticeship Program.)

Winner: Acid mine drainage coated sand as a soil amendment and phosphate removal system. Alex Rubenstein, Karen Buzby and Lian-Shin Lin. (Alex, a biomedical engineering & mathematics double major and Honors student at WVU from Morgantown, WV, was a participant in the SURE program and was funded primarily via a faculty grant awarded to LianShin Lin.) 

Winner: Increase in mutant Huntingtin protein aggregation leads to decrease in protein-lipid interaction. John Bard, Albert W. Pilkington, IV and Justin Legleiter. (John, a biochemistry major and Honors student at WVU from Richwood, WV, was a participant in the SURE program and was funded primarily via a faculty grant awarded to Justin Legleiter.)