July 26, 2003 Archives

Friday we were up at South Carolina State University for the annual SCAMP conference. It's a conference for undergrads doing research under the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program. The get the opportunity to gain some experience presenting the results of their summer research projects.

This year, my wife won the first place award for best oral presentation in the Biological Sciences category. She did a good job giving the talk for her project. She was a little disappointed that she didn't also win a prize for the best poster competition too (she won both last year), but she's still pleased.

Well, turns out we won't be moving after all, and I won't be working at Duke this fall. The wife has been having such a good experience in the research lab she's in and seems to be clicking well with her mentor, so she's decided she wants to stick around. I suppose it's just as well. She's already established some connections with people here, and she thinks getting into med school here will be a little easier than in NC, even though there's more of a choice there.