PLU senior wins prestigious scholarship
September 16, 2005
PLU senior Patrina Pellett, of Sitka, Alaska, is one of 12 outstanding young scientists to receive a significant National Institutes of Health scholarship.
The NIH Undergraduate Scholarship for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds provides funding to students committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral or social science health-related research.
Scholarship recipients receive up to $20,000 per academic year for tuition and educational and living expenses.
Each recipient also participates in a 10-week paid summer laboratory research internship. After graduation, recipients continue their paid research training at NIH in Bethesda, Md., working one year for each year of scholarship support.
Pellett, who is majoring in biology and chemistry, graduates in May and will do her internship this summer, continuing into the work program next fall.
“The facilities there are amazing,” said Pellett, who is thinking about researching signal transduction, which studies cells, at NIH and plans to be a chemist. “The idea of getting to work at a place where you have every resource at your fingertips is incredible.”
PLU professor of chemistry Craig Fryhle will work with Pellett as a faculty mentor and advisor in the scholarship program.
Scholarship recipients receive up to $20,000 per academic year for tuition and educational and living expenses.
Each recipient also participates in a 10-week paid summer laboratory research internship. After graduation, recipients continue their paid research training at NIH in Bethesda, Md., working one year for each year of scholarship support.
Pellett, who is majoring in biology and chemistry, graduates in May and will do her internship this summer, continuing into the work program next fall.
“The facilities there are amazing,” said Pellett, who is thinking about researching signal transduction, which studies cells, at NIH and plans to be a chemist. “The idea of getting to work at a place where you have every resource at your fingertips is incredible.”
PLU professor of chemistry Craig Fryhle will work with Pellett as a faculty mentor and advisor in the scholarship program.