{"id":66526,"date":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/11\/13\/vote-for-unmc-finalists-in-video-challenge\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T06:00:00","slug":"vote-for-unmc-finalists-in-video-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/11\/13\/vote-for-unmc-finalists-in-video-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for UNMC finalists in video challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Two UNMC graduate students are among the eight national finalists in The Science Coalition&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencecoalition.org\/student-video-challenge\/\">Fund It Forward Video Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Blomberg&#8217;s video on UNMC&#8217;s &#8220;Moon Team&#8221; and its research with HIV\/AIDS, and Tyler Kambis and Sumit Kar&#8217;s video on how National Institutes of Health funding is helping UNMC researchers treat diabetes are among the finalists for the coalition&#8217;s challenge, which is to create a 60- to 90-second video detailing why scientific research matters for the future. Blomberg is a graduate assistant in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience. Kambis and Kar are graduate assistants in the UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>Public online voting begins today, and voting will run through Nov. 25 to determine the winner of the People&#8217;s Choice Award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeJDCY3Hlx2LPGFJ4zjS-SSf13m9ZFEUajdGhWygRcwPDJlvg\/viewform\">Vote here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the People&#8217;s Choice Award will get a $500 prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Science Coalition (TSC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of more than 50 research universities. The coalition is dedicated to growing America&#8217;s investment in fundamental science, but we cannot take support for research funding for granted. At a time of competing priorities, it is important that Congress hear why robust federal support for research is critical for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting will run through Nov. 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