Week of June 27

 

On Tuesday, the SURF students chatted with Dr. Yasir Alsiraj who described his career journey and his work in developing mouse models to understand sex-dependent differences in disease conditions such as angiotensin II-induced aortopathies.

On Wednesday, the SURES participants met with Dr. Julia Ravenscroft who described her work that uses an anthropolgy-based approach to understand the impact of environmental exposures on vulnerable human populations.  

On Thursday, we engaged in a number of theatre improvisation exercises and learned how these approaches could help us in improving our communication skills.  We finished the day by finding plants that would best match the planters to create planters that represented the seven global regions.  Two of our planters are depicted above.

Week of June 20

 

On Tuesday, the SURF participants learned about pharmacology, medical devises and career opportunities in technology and commercialization from Dr. Kendra Stenzel.  Dr. Stenzel is the Commercialization Manager in the Office Of Technology and Commercialization at the University of Kentucky.

On Wednesday, the SURES participants chatted with Dr. Kevin Pearson about his career journey and his work on maternal exposures.

On Thursday, we worked in groups to create a planter container that would represent each of the global regions.  Some of our designs are pictured above.