SURE Summer Research Program

 

The SURE-Oxford program, an extension of Emory University’s Summer Undergraduate Research at Emory (SURE) program, is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).  The HHMI grant will support summer undergraduate research at Oxford through the SURE program from 2007-2010. Dr. Nitya Jacob, Associate Professor of Biology, is the Director of the SURE-Oxford program.  In the SURE-Oxford program, students work for 10 weeks in the summer as researchers on the Oxford campus with Oxford faculty involved in research with biological or biomedical emphasis.  The SURE-Oxford students also participate in the larger SURE program on the main campus by attending weekly career mentoring and ethics sessions, and competing in the final poster competition.

This summer six Oxford students, Dusty Cawthon, Allen Chiang, Lyndsey Davis, Ambreen Dharani, Zachary Hudson, and Nathan Bart Reeder were selected for the SURE program.  Oxford faculty, Dr. Jack Eichler, Dr. Jasmin Hutchinson, and Dr. Todd Sherman participated as mentors.  Two students, Allen Chiang and Ambreen Dharani, worked with Emory College faculty mentors.  Below is a list of the studies performed in SURE 2008.  Each work was presented as a poster at the end of the SURE program.  Zachary Hudson received the “Honorable Mention” award for his poster.

 

JASMIN C. HUTCHINSON, DUSTY CAWTHON, AND TODD SHERMAN.  The relationship between exercise intensity, perceived music usefulness, and preferred music intensity.

ALLEN CHIANG AND JACOBUS C. DE ROODE. Testing for monarch butterfly self-medication.

JASMIN HUTCHINSON, LYNDSEY DAVIS AND TODD SHERMAN.  The influence of music on a supramaximal exercise bout.

AMBREEN DHARANI, JULIET CHHAY, AND JUDY FRIDOVICH-KEIL.  The identification of rare or novel human GALT gene mutations in patients with classic galactosemia.

ZACHARY D. HUDSON, CHINAR D. SANGHVI, DR. MOHAMMAD R. SAADEIN, DR. CORA E. MACBETH, AND DR. JACK F. EICHLER.  Synthesis and characterization of gold (III) anti-cancer therapeutic agents. 

TODD SHERMAN, NATHAN B. REEDER, AND JASMIN HUTCHINSON.  Influence of self-efficacy on anaerobic performance during a 30-second Wingate bike test.

Past SURE-Oxford participants:

SURE 2007: Rebekah Cordiero Ox’07, Hillary Olivier Ox ’08 (Honorable Mention Award recipient), Melody Rhine Ox ‘07, Michael Spinner Ox ‘07 and Aakar Thaker Ox ’07.
SURE 2006 (pilot program): W. Samuel Bradford Ox ’06 and Alexander Golovlev Ox ’06.

The selection process for SURE 2009 will begin in Fall 2008.  The final deadline for SURE applications is early February 2009.