Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan and the Guru Krupa Foundation have awarded 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) $500,000. The grant will support a new Undergraduate Research Program (URP) fellowship for aspiring early career scientists.
鈥淪mart undergrads who want to pursue science and explore what is not known are sometimes constrained by their financial circumstances,鈥 says Padmanabhan, who is a partner and researcher at Renaissance Technologies and an adjunct visiting scientist in CSHL鈥檚 Cowley lab. 鈥淚t gives me great satisfaction to be able to play a role in helping them pursue their passion for science, by setting up this URP fellowship.鈥
鈥淒r. Padmanabhan and the Guru Krupa Foundation鈥檚 generous support helps expand access to research opportunities for students whose home institutions may not offer extensive research training,鈥 adds URP Co-Director Peter Westcott. 鈥淭his grant also helps ease the financial burden for students who might otherwise need to hold down jobs, giving them the opportunity to fully engage in hands-on research and learning at CSHL. I thank him and the foundation for their continued support.鈥
Since 1959, the Undergraduate Research Program has offered students from around the world a unique opportunity to pursue hands-on research with renowned CSHL scientists. About 20 students are selected for the program each year. From June to August, they live on campus and conduct research in a lab specializing in one of CSHL鈥檚 main research areas鈥攃ancer, plant biology and genomics, neuroscience, or quantitative biology and AI.
Founded in 2007, the works to address broad community needs, with a focus on social welfare, education, spirituality, arts, culture, and the environment in India and the United States. Padmanabhan and the Foundation previously endowed a School of Biological Sciences fellowship in 2020. That fellowship now supports graduate student Satwick Pasani, who studies computational neuroscience in the Cowley lab.
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