Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study

 

The goal of the Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study program is to ensure the development of a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to assume leadership roles in science, including college and university faculty, who have the responsibility to teach the next generation of scientists.

Students are chosen for their academic excellence, scientific potential, and commitment to the advancement of diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

 

Web Information

Webpagehttps://www.hhmi.org/programs/gilliam-fellowships-for-advanced-study

Contact Information

Email: gilliam@hhmi.org.

About

The fellowships honor the legacy of the late James H. Gilliam, Jr., an HHMI trustee who devoted his life to fostering excellence and diversity in education and science.

The 2015 competition is open to:

Alumni of HHMI’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), regardless of country of origin or nationally, or Students nominated by T32 predoctoral training grant principal investigators (PIs) supported by the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); each nominated student must be training grant eligible but does not need to have been a T32 trainee.

Each fellowship will support students for up to three years of their dissertation research, typically in years three, four and five of their PhD studies.  Applicants must be in their second or third year of a PhD program in the life sciences or related sciences and ...

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Katie Yang, PhD candidate, Wisconsin

 

Katie Yang, a doctoral candidate in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is a recipient of the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).

Katie’s research focus is on the peripheral mechanisms of vocal and swallowing deficits in a rat model of Parkinson Disease. Katie is a member of the lab of Dr. Michelle Ciucci, assistant professor of surgery, and is one of two UW-Madison graduate students to earn the fellowship.

Web Information

Wisconsin webpagentp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/ricks.htm

Contact Information

Email: kricks@wisc.edu and katie@onair.cc

 

 

 

 

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