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<Title>Want $1500 to Fund Your Research or Creative Work?</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><strong>Undergraduate Research Awards</strong> provide up to <strong>$1,500</strong> to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. <div><br></div><div>UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they will remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.</div><div><br></div><h3>ACT NOW!</h3><div>Deadline has been extended! Monday, March 2, 2015</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><em>Image: From Ke Tang's 2014 URCAD presentation "From the Lion’s Mouth: the Syrian Refugee Crisis from a Jordanian Perspective"</em></div></div>
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<Title>Want to Present at URCAD?</Title>
<Tagline>Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 25, 2015</Tagline>
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<Summary>Want the chance to present your research in front of hundreds of people?  Apply to present at Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD), UMBC's yearly celebration of...</Summary>
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<Title>Researcher of the Week: Melissa Crowhurst</Title>
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    Successful projects are often published in peer-reviewed journals.  There
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    While previous research experience in organic chemistry is not required it is
    certainly preferred. </span></p><p><strong><span>Interested?</span></strong></p><p><span>E-mail
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<Title>Researcher of the Week: Salar Sepehri</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Meet Salar,</div><div>He is a <a href="http://biology.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Biological Sciences</a> Major, a Burgee Regents Scholar and a <a href="http://umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/research/URA/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">URA</a> Scholar. He is also a transfer student from from Howard Community College where he completed his first two years of his undergraduate degree and received his Associate Degree. His future plans are to pursue his MD degree in medical school after graduating from UMBC.</div><div><br></div><div><div><strong>How did you find your mentor for your research project?</strong></div><div>After transferring to UMBC last year, I started searching different research opportunities on UMBC's website. That is where I found Dr. Karpel. I read the abstracts of some of his projects and sent him an e-mail with my resume attached. He was kind enough to respond to my email and set up a time for us to meet.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you know this was the project you wanted to do?</strong></div><div>Well, I did not know that I wanted to work on this particular project at first. However, I explained my interests to Dr. Karpel and what I could bring to his team. After a few meetings with him and learning more about what he does, I decided to work on this project.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Is this your first independent research project?</strong></div><div>Yes, this is the first time that I will be working independently. I do have some research experience at the Department of Geriatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. I work with a group of more than 25 people there.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Do you get course credit for this work?</strong></div><div>I will not be getting any course credit for this in the upcoming semester (Fall-2014). However, since this project will take two semesters, I might be able to get a few credits for it during next semester through the partnership between the Honors College and the Office of Undergraduate Education.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How much time do you put into it?</strong></div><div>I usually spend around 10 hours per week in the lab.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you hear about the Undergraduate Research Award (URA) program?</strong></div><div>My mentor, Dr. Karpel encouraged me to apply for the URA program. I also had heard about the program in one of the research workshops that was conducted by Ms. McGlynn in early September.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What academic background did you have before you applied for the URA?</strong></div><div>Before applying for the URA, I had completed all of the Biology core courses in addition to a few upper-level Biology courses such as Cell Biology and Biochemistry. The concepts that I learned in that Biochemistry course helped me very much in understanding my project.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Was the application difficult to do?</strong></div><div>The application process itself was pretty straightforward, but the URA application was the first time in my academic life that I had to write a professional proposal and I had some difficulties doing it. However, my mentor Dr. Karpel, and Ms. McGlynn helped me throughout the process and gave me feedback on how to make it better.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How much did your mentor help you with the application?</strong></div><div>Dr. Karpel was very helpful throughout the process. I wrote the application independently, and he reviewed and edited the drafts.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What else are you involved in on campus?</strong></div><div>I am a member of the Pre-medicine club and the transfer representative at the Honors College Council. I am also the Transfer team leader at the Honors College, where I mentor new transfer students.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research? </strong></div><div>I would encourage every student to take a part in any kind of research they may be interested in. Doing research is a great way to apply the concepts that we learn in the classroom as well as discovering new ideas. Also, I would tell the students not to be afraid to approach the faculty members and ask them about their research projects.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What are your career goals?</strong></div><div>I plan to pursue an MD degree in medical school after graduating from UMBC.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Did you transfer to UMBC from another institution? Where</strong>?</div><div>Yes, I transferred from Howard Community College in Fall of 2014, after completing the first two years of my undergraduate degree and getting my Associate Degree. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Read his abstract here...</div></div>
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