2008 Woodie Awards
Fayetteville State University Student Wins Award at Research Conference
FSU Public Relations
Issue date: 2/1/07 Section: News
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1/22/07 - Saed Abokor, a junior at Fayetteville State University (FSU), has been honored with an award for research he presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California in November 2006.
ABRCMS is an annual conference organized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Now in its sixth year, ABRCMS is the largest, professional conference for biomedical students. Over 2,500 people attended this year's conference including 1,633 students, 421 faculty and program directors, and 418 exhibitors. The conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and provide faculty mentors and advisors with resources for facilitating students' success.
"This conference addresses a critical need in this country to cultivate the scientific potential and talent in groups (women and under-represented minorities) that were historically and are currently under-utilized in careers within the biomedical sciences," says ASM President-Elect Clifford Houston, the chair of the conference.
During the four-day conference over 1,100 students participated in poster and oral presentations in nine sub-disciplines in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. All undergraduate student presentations were judged. Those receiving the highest scores in each scientific discipline and in each educational level were given awards during the final banquet. A total of 120 undergraduates received monetary awards of $250 for their outstanding research.
Abokor was recognized for his research elucidating the cardioprotective mechanism of insulin.
The 2007 ABRCMS has been scheduled November 7-10 in Austin, Texas. For more information visit the conference website. http://www.abrcms.org/index.html
ABRCMS is an annual conference organized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Now in its sixth year, ABRCMS is the largest, professional conference for biomedical students. Over 2,500 people attended this year's conference including 1,633 students, 421 faculty and program directors, and 418 exhibitors. The conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and provide faculty mentors and advisors with resources for facilitating students' success.
"This conference addresses a critical need in this country to cultivate the scientific potential and talent in groups (women and under-represented minorities) that were historically and are currently under-utilized in careers within the biomedical sciences," says ASM President-Elect Clifford Houston, the chair of the conference.
During the four-day conference over 1,100 students participated in poster and oral presentations in nine sub-disciplines in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. All undergraduate student presentations were judged. Those receiving the highest scores in each scientific discipline and in each educational level were given awards during the final banquet. A total of 120 undergraduates received monetary awards of $250 for their outstanding research.
Abokor was recognized for his research elucidating the cardioprotective mechanism of insulin.
The 2007 ABRCMS has been scheduled November 7-10 in Austin, Texas. For more information visit the conference website. http://www.abrcms.org/index.html
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