We are excited to announce that Freeman Lab Undergraduate Jade Dang, a recipient of the Will Froelich Honors Fellowship, has had her fellowship proposal approved! Jade will be spending the coming summer continuing her research in the Freeman Lab, using fluorescent-based methods to probe the properties of peptide-DNA and catalytic material. The Will Froelich Honors… Continue reading Jade Dang’s Will Froelich Fellowship Proposal Approved
Category: Awards
Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19
The Freeman Lab is happy to announce that we have received funding via two Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) grants to investigate the COVID-19 virus. The first of these grants, titled “Pan-Covid-19 MultiValent Binders (MVBs) to Block Virus Entry”, was submitted with Rommie Amaro of the University of California and Carlos Simmerling of Stony… Continue reading Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19
Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant
The Freeman Lab is part of a multidisciplinary team that has been awarded an NSF RAPID grant, to explore the critical role of airway mucus in the transmission, infection, and spread of the COVID-19 virus. You can read more about this award at the Innovate Carolina website here. While the world waits for a vaccine… Continue reading Lung mucus strategy to mitigate Covid-19 transmission and infection receives NSF RAPID grant
Hannah Wilkins Granted Senior Honors Thesis Award
We are happy to announce that Freeman Lab undergraduate student Hannah Wilkins has won the Tom and Elizabeth Long Research Award! This award is granted once a year by Honors Carolina, an interdisciplinary academic program designed for students who are eager to explore beyond their immediate academic concentrations and anticipated career trajectories. Their generous awards financially… Continue reading Hannah Wilkins Granted Senior Honors Thesis Award
Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC
We are thrilled to announce that Freeman Lab PhD candidate Maggie Daly has won first place in the Biomaterials category for her poster presentation at the 7th Annual Triangle Student Research Competition (TSRC). TSRC is a poster session and networking event for students in the Research Triangle to showcase their research, practice for national conferences, and… Continue reading Maggie Daly Wins 1st Prize At TSRC
Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship
We are excited to announce that Freeman Lab Ph.D. candidate Maggie Daly has been selected for the 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Each year NSF recognizes outstanding graduate students in STEM fields of study who “have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers, early in their career.” Maggie is… Continue reading Maggie Daly Awarded NSF Fellowship
Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award
The Freeman Lab is thrilled to announce that our own Hannah Wilkins, a junior at the University of North Carolina in the Chancellor’s Science scholar program, has won the 3rd Place Overall Poster Award at this year’s Summer Undergraduate Program Symposium. UNC’s Summer Undergraduate Program is an opportunity for minority scholars to get a taste… Continue reading Hannah Wilkins Wins Poster Award