She is co-author on two journal articles.
She has four years of research experience.
She just graduated with a biotechnology degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
And now, Maggie Bartlett, a 2013 INBRE Scholar, has received the 2016 Chancellor’s Outstanding Incoming Ph.D. Student Scholarship from UNMC.
“Maggie was selected based on her previous research accomplishments as an undergraduate student, including Graduate Record Examination (GRE) score, publications, presentations regionally and nationally at scientific conferences and her research experience,” said Jim Turpen, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor of academic affairs, executive associate dean for graduate studies and principal investigator on the Nebraska INBRE project.
The scholarship provides a $4,000 stipend for two years. As a former INBRE scholar attending a Ph.D.-granting institution in the state of Nebraska, Bartlett also will receive a $25,000 INBRE stipend for the first two years of her doctoral studies.
With those financial packages in tow, Bartlett is poised to begin her doctoral studies in infectious diseases on a high note.
Bartlett, in fact, will spend the summer working in the lab of Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Center for Genome Sciences located at USAMRIID (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases), a lead Department of Defense laboratory for biodefense research in Fort Detrick, Md.
“I’m absolutely thrilled to have this unique opportunity to work with Dr. Sanchez-Lockhart,” Bartlett said. “This is a great opportunity and rare experience to dive deep into the cutting edge infectious disease and immunology work happening there. I still can’t believe it!”