Biological Science student receives poster award

Senior biological sciences student, Matthew Almazan, won a presentation award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). He was among the winners for Best Poster for Developmental Biology with his poster on the role of planarian auricles in chemotaxis. During the past year he worked in Dr. Labib Rouhana's lab studying post-trascriptional regulation in planarian flatworms. Matthew is very involve in campus life serving as the College of Science and Mathematics' (CoSM) Senator and on the CoSM Dean's Circle.

ABRCMS is one of the largest, professional conferences