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September 25, 2006

UNM Student Receives American Society of Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award 

The American Society for Microbiology has selected senior Katie Liberatore from University of New Mexico as a 2006 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship is aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate careers in microbiology.

Stephanie Ruby, associate professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, is Liberatore's mentor. The title of the research project is: Identification and characterization of the N-terminal binding region of Prp5p in yeast.

Each fellow receives up to a $4,000 stipend, a one-year ASM student membership and reimbursement for travel expenses to the 2007 ASM General Meeting. Recipients have the opportunity to conduct full time summer research at their institution with an ASM mentor and present their research results at the 2007 ASM General Meeting the following year if their abstract is accepted.

This year 73 applications were received and 43 were awarded. Of the awardees, 19 students were from doctoral/research universities-extensive institutions, nine students were from baccalaureate colleges-liberal arts institutions, eight students were from master's colleges & universities I institutions, four students were from baccalaureate college-general institutions, two students were from doctoral/research university-intensive institutions, including Liberatore, and one student was from a master's college and university II institution.

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest and largest single biological membership organization, with over 40,000 members worldwide. Please visit: http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=4319 for more information.

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