Researchers of Emory

 Nia Dubon-Robinson  is a Senior double majoring in Environmental Science and Sociology. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Sustainability  and Development Conference at the University of Michigan . Participating in the SIRE program during my second year at Emory opened many doors for me. I was introduced to the various components of what it meant to be an undergraduate research assistant, which led me to working with my current advisor, Eri Saikawa, in the Environmental Science department. My research in Tibetan cookstoves and household air pollution while participating in the SIRE program, brushed only the surface of this growing topic in environmental health and sustainable development. I wanted to go more in depth with my past SIRE research and having spent the summer at the University of Michigan, I was aware of the international  Sustainability and Development Conference that the university would host in Novem...

Shiyu Lin  is a Senior majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology. She was awarded a Fall 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Neuroscience 2018 Conference. “The figure is not properly aligned.” “The font color is not consistent.” “ Is this dotted line horizontal?” … I stared at the screen with eighty eight comments from my principal investigator (PI) on my first draft of poster, sighing. If at that point I knew what I would be looking like three days later, I would not sigh that early because the second poster draft received another twenty comments. However, when I finally hung the poster which had my name, my lab name, and my school name up on the board, I was so thankful for my PI and myself for making this poster closer and closer towards perfect.