Accomplishments and Events

Four CPRIT CURE Trainees Named 2022 Goldwater Scholars

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was established in 1986. By providing scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineeering, the Goldwater Foundation is helping to ensure that the U.S. is producing the number of high-qualified professionals the nation needs in these critical fields. For the 2022-2023 academic year, 450 college students from across the United States were awarded. From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors we would like to congratulate the 4 former CPRIT CURE trainees.

Congratulations to: Maya Ferrell (University of Oklahoma- Norman Campus), Andrew Ibrahim (Texas Tech University), Navya Murugesan (Tulane University), and Karen Wang (Rice University)

2021 CPRIT CURE SUMMER Program- End of Summer Poster Competition

Congratulations to the poster competition winners : Shivani Nellore (University of Pennsylvania); Catherine Luo (John Hopkins University); Alice Liu (University of Illinois- Chicago); Sueda Cetinkaya (Rice University) and Ashley Gelin (Pennsylvania State University). 

2021 CPRIT CURE SUMMER Program- YouTube STEM Outreach Competition

This year all of our CPRIT CURE SUMMER trainees (in nine groups) were required to create a 10-15 minute STEM based educational video on a topic taught in Kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum. These videos could have taken form of discussions, demonstrations or experiments. The purpose of this project is to encourage younger generations to find interest in science by opening their eyes to what science involves and how it can relate to research and/or being a research scientist. The videos were posted to YouTube and judged by five volunteers from our CPRIT TRIUMPH and CPRIT Scholar trainees. 

Congratulations to the competition winners with the "Best Score": Catherine Luo (John Hopkins University); Seyedsephr Madani (University of Mass.- Lowell); Aurian Maleki (Rice University); Sujay Marisetty (Rice University); Nafiza Meher (Rice University); Avha Mohanty(University of Texas); Daniel Mousavi (John Hopkins University) and Nothando Mangena (Carleton College).

Congratulations to the competition winners with the "Most Views": Selena Ding (Berkeley); Phoung Dinh (Albion University); Allyson Drawdy (Clemson University); Shafqat Ehsan (St. Mary's University); Romina Falahaty (University of California- L.A.); Alina Feng (Duke University); Maya Ferrell (University of Oklahoma ); Lucan Warma (University of Toronto) and Alvina Zia (Houston Baptist University).

To view these videos please click the titles below:

DNA Replication -CPRIT CURE STEM Outreach - Summer 2021
The Immune System and its Cells!
The Central Dogma Explained at 5 Levels
CPRIT-CURE Summer Research Program STEM Outreach Project
Food Chemistry and Digestive System (STEM Outreach Competition)
Science Behind Cooking
The Scientific Method
Let's Tour the Solar System!
Overview of Cancer cells and Cell lines

2021 Goldwater Scholars

For the 2021-2022 academic year, 410 college students fro across the United States were awarded. From an estimed pool of  college sophomores and juniors we would like to congratulate the 7 students who are apart of the CPRIT CURE program.

Congratulations to: John Boom (Duke); Ann Marie Flusche (Univeristy of Tulsa; Carolina Guerrera (Dartmouth); Jordan Kramer (Georgetown) Qianyun (Lexi) Luo (Univesrity of Wisconsin-Madison); Jocelyn Mathew (University of Rochester); and Alexis Simmons (Baylor University)