SOURCE Day 1

Posted by Nicole Sharp on 31 May 2005 at 17:19

Now that I'm back at Case, the real fun of the summer can begin! I don't believe that I've mentioned it here yet, but I have the honor of receiving one of the inaugural grants from the SOURCE office for summer research. Back in April, I mentioned SOURCE as a possibility for summer employment, but things got busy and I didn't document finding a professor and a project or writing the proposal.

There was a lot of competition for the limited number of awards, but my proposal for a project (entitled "An Investigation of the Odor Sensing Abilities of Moths") with Dr. Ed White of the EMAE department got some positive attention, so here I am back at Case with funds to cover the costs of staying here over the summer.

I'd expected to start working today to define the project a bit more clearly than I did in the proposal, but, unfortunately, Dr. White had a paper deadline to meet, so that's been put off until tomorrow. I decided to stop by the SOURCE office to ask about the CAA breakfast this Friday, and Dr. Pedigo requested that I get the biorobotics posters from last semester so that we can display them at the breakfast. It seems like a nice way of giving the alumni an idea of what sort of projects their money is going toward, and I have to admit that it was nice to stand in front of my poster again.

Hopefully, I'll be able to say more about my project tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm quite looking forward to a summer of research.

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    Mano Singham said

    On 01 June 2005 at 14:18

    Nicole,

    Welcome back and congratulations on getting the SOURCE grant!

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    Nicole Sharp said

    On 01 June 2005 at 20:54

    Thanks, Mano! I'm really looking forward to getting into the project.

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