Two postdoctoral fellows in psychiatry at Yale, Christina Campbell, PhD, and Cindy Huang, PhD, served as judges of research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Both fellows are affiliated with the department's Division of Prevention and Community Research.
ABRCMS, which is designed to encourage under-represented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, was held November 7-10th in San Jose, California.
More than 3,400 people attended ABRCMS this year, including 1,700 students who participated in poster and oral presentations. Each undergraduate or postbaccalaureate presentation was judged by three scientists, and 277 students with the highest scores in each scientific discipline and for each educational level received monetary awards.
"ABRCMS really depends on a dedicated group of researcher-educators — all volunteers — to keep its rigorous judging program running smoothly," said conference chair Clifford W. Houston, PhD, associate vice president for educational outreach and the Herman Barnett Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. "The contributions that our volunteer judges make toward encouraging student research and achievement cannot be overestimated."
ABRCMS is managed by the American Society for Microbiology and supported by a grant from the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health.