Fresno State biochemistry large Gurmannat Chalotra loves to spot the chemistry reactions that she learns astir successful people travel to beingness successful the lab.
Chalotra, a inferior from Hanford and President’s Scholar successful the Smittcamp Family Honors College, has worked successful Dr. Qiao-Hong Chen’s laboratory astatine Fresno State for much than a twelvemonth researching imaginable therapeutics for prostate cancer.
“You get to manipulate experimental conditions and you don’t needfully person an thought of what to expect. You don’t cognize needfully what’s going to travel retired of it,” said Chalotra, who joined the laboratory during her sophomore year. “I deliberation that the chartless is what’s particularly breathtaking astir [research].”
In January, Chalotra was 1 of astir 35 Fresno State students and module to be the 37th yearly California State University Biotechnology Symposium, antecedently known arsenic CSUPERB, to network, to larn and to contiguous their probe projects. The large lawsuit is hosted by CSU BIOTECH, a web of faculty, deans and presidents representing each 23 CSU campuses.
At the symposium, Chalotra was announced this year’s recipient of the CSU Glenn Nagel Undergraduate Research Award — a archetypal for Fresno State. Named aft the precocious Dr. Glenn Nagel, dean of Natural Science and Mathematics astatine Long Beach State, the grant celebrates the enactment of an outstanding undergraduate researcher and highlights the pioneering enactment of collaborative faculty/student probe groups.
Chalotra was nominated by Chen for her dedication, probe capabilities and perseverance. The grant comes with a currency prize and question allowance of $1,750 to enactment Chalotra’s information successful a aboriginal nonrecreational gathering oregon probe conference.
“Having 1 of my students person the Glenn Nagel Award is incredibly meaningful. It not lone recognizes Gurmannat’s hard enactment and achievements but besides highlights the dedication and endowment of our students,” Chen said. “Her occurrence is simply a testament to the interaction of undergraduate research, and I americium arrogant to spot her contributions acknowledged.”
Fresno State has participated successful the biotechnology symposium each twelvemonth for arsenic agelong arsenic Dr. Christopher Meyer, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, tin remember. He archetypal started attending the lawsuit successful 1995 erstwhile helium was a caller adjunct prof astatine Cal State Fullerton, wherever Nagel was past seat of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Now, Meyer serves connected CSU BIOTECH’s Strategic Planning Council, helping to find CSU alumni to talk astatine the lawsuit and prosecute with module and students, starring to probe collaborations and pupil internships. Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval serves arsenic seat of CSU BIOTECH’s President’s Commission.
Fresno State students and module representing disciplines from the College of Science and Mathematics, the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology and the Lyles College of Engineering were authors and co-authors connected 24 posters, representing astir 11% of each posters presented astatine the symposium.
“For students, it’s often their archetypal gathering that they spell to. It truly prepares them for nationalist and planetary meetings due to the fact that they get a batch of mentoring astatine the symposium, and afloat enactment successful galore nonrecreational improvement workshops arsenic good arsenic enriching plenary and poster sessions,” Meyer said. “It’s a large concern successful presumption of the students, galore of whom person gone connected to either truly precocious prime postgraduate oregon nonrecreational programs oregon close into the biotech industry.”
