Cristina Garcia, IBA Scholar August 2020-December 2021 graduated with this Fall 2021 with a BS in Pre-Medicine. Some of Christina's accomplishments include University of Iowa President's List (Spring 2021, Fall 2021), Dean's List (Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, ICRU (Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates) Summer Fellowship 2020, Iowa Advantage Iowa Award, Advantage Iowa Grant, National Scholars Award, Minority American Science Award (UICA), and a Research Development Scholarship. She began working in the Green Lab in January 2020 and the Hansen Lab in March 2021.

Lori Adams, program director for the Latham Science Engagement Initiative, and Associate Director Brinda Shetty, work with students within the fellowship program to ‘engage our community in thinking about how science impacts their daily lives, informs policy, and can be used to address societal changes.’ Students accomplish this mission by engaging in projects that raise awareness about climate change, health inequalities or broadening public participation in the sciences.    

Become a Research Volunteer at the Integrated Brain Health Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Students participating the the IBA/LSAMP Summer Program had the opportunity to present their research at the Summer Undergraduate Poster Symposium. This event was sponsored by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This year we had 18 students from IBA, LSAMP and Science Alliance presenting posters at this event. See below for the poster numbers and times of presentations or you can reference the program for the event.

To help you sharpen your science skills and develop both professionally and personally, we have worked with Institutes and Centers (ICs) and Training Offices across the NIH to develop a summer-long series of activities. These online offerings will focus on the exciting science we do at the NIH and on important career, professional development, and wellness topics for students at all educational levels. We encourage you to look at all the program offerings and identify events that will help you achieve your scientific and career goals.

IBA and LSAMP had 17 students graduating this Spring! This group of students showed their resiliency weathering the challenges of conducting undergraduate research during a pandemic. We will miss all of these amazing students and we can't wait to see what they will accomplish as the move through their education and careers!

Congratulations to alumna, Rikki Laser, for receiving a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)! Laser graduated from the University of Iowa in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. While at Iowa, she was an Iowa Biosciences Academy Scholar and a Latham Fellow (2018-19). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Pyschology at Cornell University.

Congratulations to alumna, Rikki Laser, for receiving a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)! Laser graduated from the University of Iowa in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience. While at Iowa, she was an Iowa Biosciences Academy Scholar and a Latham Fellow (2018-19). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Pyschology at Cornell University.

Congratulations to IBA Scholar, Jia Zhao, for being accepted into the Biology Graduate Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)! Jia is majoring in Biology at the University of Iowa and is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Dr. Bin He in the Department of Biology.