Week of July 22nd

On Monday, the SURF participants talked with Dr. Kendra Staggs, who is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Dept. Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences.  Dr. Staggs told us about her career journey, her research on sleep, cognition and aging, her fellowship in technology transfer and her internship as a data manager for startups at the University of Kentucky.  The SURES participants talked with Dr. Gang Chen who is an Associate Professor the Dept. Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences.  Dr. Chen  told us about his career journey and his research on ethanol neurotoxicity and carcinogenesis induced by arsenic and chromium.

For our Thursday activity, we first joined Dr. Pete Mirabito and the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Students (KBRIN) and watched the documentary called The Human Element.  We then discussed the implications of this movie and some of the lessons learned about communicating human health issues associated with climate change.  Dr. Mirabito shared a podcast that was also very informative (Listen to Facts Aren't Enough from Hidden Brain in Podcasts).

After all of that serious stuff-we then turned on the creative side of our brains by tie-dying our labcoats and painting our science projects.