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EDUCATION
2015 Gates Center Summer Internship Program (GSIP) participants: (BACK ROW, left to right) Abigail Luman, Weston Ryan, Frances Richardson, Emily Paton, Madison Rogers, Benjamin Rudeen (FRONT ROW, left to right) Paige Ostwald, Nicholas Sarai, McKennah Repasky, Kaitlin Sweeney, Maria Anastasiadou
With an ongoing commitment to inspiring and training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, the Gates Center both augmented and strengthened its educational program during the 2015 calendar year.
Thanks to a generous gift from longtime Gates Center friends Rhondda and Peter Grant, the center inaugurated the Gates Center Summer Internship Program (GSIP) in June 2015. Designed and run by three dedicated Gates Center faculty members—Tamara Terzian, PhD, Neil Box, PhD, and Enrique Torchia, PhD, and Gates Center Lab Manager
Charles Wall—the program aspires to encourage outstanding undergraduates to consider careers in stem cell and regenerative medicine research in an academic or industry setting by providing state-of-the-art training opportunities at the Gates Center.
In June, the center welcomed 12 undergraduates who were selected on a competitive basis from across the country and assigned to 12 Gates Center member labs. In addition to the 11-week full-time program, GSIP interns attended a Gates Center orientation, weekly lectures, a field trip to the new
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