ENDO 2018 Post-bacc Reflections

As a part of the Jeffress grant that is supporting Kristen’s salary for her post-baccalaureate research for the year, we had funding for her to attend a scientific research. I was excited for her to come with Maddie and me to ENDO in Chicago because of the...

ENDO 2018 Student Reflections

As always when I attend conferences with students, I encourage them to go to as many talks as possible, to meet people, to participate fully in the event, and afterward to reflect on their experience. Maddie was at ENDO as a recipient of the summer research fellowship...

ENDO 2018 Reflections

  In 2014, when I was finishing up my postdoc at UIUC and getting ready to start my independent career at UR, I joined the Endocrine Society. My postdoc advisor had been a member for a long time and it seemed like a great community of folks with whom to interact....

Beckman Scholar

Congratulations to Najwa Labban on her recent installment as a University of Richmond Beckman Scholar! Najwa has been a joint student in the Pollock and Leopold labs since the summer after her first year. She has performed enzyme expression, purification, and assay...

Research Leave – Week 1

Research Leave: a semester pre-tenure where you have no teaching responsibilities, limited service commitments, and can focus on research productivity. I am officially one week into this “research leave”! After some re-configuring of the air handling in my...

2017 Holiday Party

Another semester finished. Another calendar year done. Another successful Pollock lab holiday party. Unfortunately we were not in full force (study abroad, exam preparation, etc.), but we have a fun time eating lunch and decorating ornaments. Good luck to everyone on...

SERMACS 2017 – Student Perspective

Probably the best feedback on a conference comes from the students who are experiencing it for the first or second time. So without further ado, here is their thoughts on the talks they attended! Enjoy! TVS (Patrick, Malik, Ritwika) poster 2SERMACS 2017 Kiana presents...

Fall Science Symposium 2017

The Fall Science Symposium on University of Richmond’s campus took place on September 22, 2017. Although this post is a bit delayed, the students did an excellent job presenting their research. I find this symposium to be a great one for student presentations...