{"id":1026,"date":"2020-01-07T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/?page_id=1026"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:20:12","slug":"beckman-scholars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/student-awards-and-fellowships\/beckman-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"91̽»¨ Mudd Beckman Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beckman Scholars Program is a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences, or interdisciplinary combinations thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christian Stevens, awarded 2012. Research title: Inhibition of HIV &#8211; 1 replication by a tRNA-TAR decoy chimera. Faculty mentor: Karl Haushalter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katerina Hilleke, awarded 2011. Research title: Biomimetic Synthesis of Beilschmiedic Acid C and Antibacterial Studies. Faculty mentor: David Vosburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Aldrich, awarded 2010. Research title: Discovery of Natural Product Inhibitors of Xylella fastidiosa from Endophytic Fungi. Faculty mentor: Katherine Maloney<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russell Thompson, awarded 2010. Research title: Determination of the Effect of IL-1ra and 3D Culture on the Expression of alpha-SMA, TKT and ALDH by Subcultured Rabbit Corneal Keratocytes. Faculty mentor: Elizabeth Orwin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Brockman, awarded 2009. Research title: Mitochondrial Genome Characterization of the Scleraxonia Groups of Gorgonians. Faculty mentor: Cathy McFadden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kanny Wan, awarded 2009. Research title: Biomemetic Synthesis of Davanone and Other Terpenoid Compounds. Faculty mentor: David Vosburg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Terrence Wong, awarded 2008. Research title: Characterization of CTCF Binding Sites in the Proximal Exonic Region of hTERT (Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase). Faculty mentor: Robert Drewell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diana Ahn Tran, awarded 2007. Research title: Characterization of Conserved Regulatory Elements in the Telomerase Promoter in Primates. Faculty mentor: Robert Drewell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matthew Hoss, awarded 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lindsay Wray, awarded 2006.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Amanda Hickman, awarded 2005.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whitney Duim, awarded 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beckman Scholars Program is a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences, or interdisciplinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":916,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}