“The Danny Brower Award gives me some financial security, which is especially important right now! There is a lot of uncertainty in the air and this scholarship helps give me a sense of control…

The MCB Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award is presented each spring to an MCB Senior who has demonstrated excellence in their undergraduate research. This year’s award winner, Alexa Nguyen, has been doing research since her freshmen year in college, so it’s no surprise that Alexa was selected as this year’s winner. Alexa is a Flinn Scholar and as part of the Flinn Scholar program, students are paired with a faculty member to mentor them and be a guide during their undergraduate years

Qualifications for this award include personal integrity, initiative, cooperativeness, enthusiasm, humility, well-rounded interests, active participation in student affairs, service to the University, willingness to give more than required, love of God and country. In addition to her Robie award, Rae Anne Martinez, a native of Gilbert, Arizona, will graduate Magna Cum Laude from the Honors College with a Bachelors of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology, a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Chinese Language

Dr. Joyce Schroeder’s new peptide-based therapy may prove extremely useful in the world’s ongoing battle against cancer. Peptides are small chains of amino acids that form structures called proteins, which play numerous important roles in human cells. We all know someone who has experienced—or even succumbed to—the horror that we call cancer. It’s a disease not …

With a patented treatment for breast-cancer tumors and newly formed company, a University of Arizona researcher is poised to move her research out of the lab and into the clinical setting. Joyce Schroeder has discovered two proteins that work together to drive triple-negative breast cancer. She’s since developed a drug that has been proven in mice to reduce tumor size and prevent metastasis to other parts of the body.“The best part of the story…