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Some of the UNMC students who will attend the International Student Forum in June are, back row from left — Laura Fisher, Puttappa Dodmane, James Randazzo, Nathan Erdmann, John Eggers and Dan Flaherty — front row from left — Kalyan Nannuru, Thomas Wilson, Agnes Constantino, Satoko Kiyota, Sonal Tuljapurkar, Qian Zhang and Li Yang. |
The students were selected based upon scoring by a panel composed of students from programs throughout campus. The annual forum allows the students to share their research and culture with others from around the world.
UNMC attendees will be joined by colleagues from The Institute of Medical Science at The University of Tokyo, the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of California, San Francisco, Russia’s Moscow State University, the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India, the University of Melbourne in Australia and the Australian Academy of Sciences.
“I see this as a good chance to build relationships with future colleagues from other countries,” said Agnes Constantino, a pharmacology and experimental neuroscience graduate student, will take part in her first International Student Forum.
Laura Fisher, a student in the cancer research graduate program, said the forum gives her chance to present her research – a skill she’ll need as she progresses in her career.
“I want to get more experience presenting and talking about my research and this provides a good chance to that for an international audience,” Fisher said.
Both Constantino and Fisher said they want to learn what life is like for graduate students from other countries.
UNMC’s Asia Pacific Rim Development Program is coordinating this year’s conference, which will be held the first week of June. UNMC students have attended the previous two forums, which were held in Beijing (2006) and Tokyo (2007).
This is the first year the forum will be in the United States, which, organizers said, makes it honor for UNMC to serve as host.
The selected students will take part in forum events as well as give a 15-minute oral presentation. Honors such as cash awards will be given to outstanding presentations during the forum. Students who attend this year also will be eligible to attend next year’s international forum, which will be held outside the United States.
The UNMC International Student Forum participants and their departments or colleges are listed below:
- Sangeeta Bafna, biochemistry and molecular biology
- Shantibusan Senapati, biochemistry and molecular biology
- Subhankar Chakraborty, biochemistry and molecular biology
- Jennifer Bailey, cancer research graduate program
- John Eggers,cancer research graduate program
- Laura Fisher, cancer research graduate program
- Qian Zhang, cancer research graduate program
- Li Yang, cancer research graduate program
- Brandi Babcock, College of Nursing
- Michael Mulhern, genetics, cell biology and anatomy
- Sonal Tuljapurkar, genetics, cell biology and anatomy
- Kalyan Nannuru, pathology and microbiology
- Satoko Kiyota, pathology and microbiology
- Thomas Wilson, pathology and microbiology
- Dan Flaherty, pharmaceutical sciences
- Daria Alakhova, pharmaceutical sciences
- James Randazzo, pharmaceutical sciences
- Xiang Yi, pharmaceutical sciences
- Agnes Constantino, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
- Nathan Erdmann, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
- Puttappa Dodmane, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience