COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 21, 2009 – Taylor Sugg, an undergraduate student in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University has been awarded first place in the Undergraduate Summer Research Grants (USRG) poster competition for his entry titled “Constructing a Thermally Stable Hepatitis C Population through a Synthetic Evolution Approach.”
Sugg, a resident of College Station, participated in the competition as part of the Department of Chemical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, a National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative that offers undergraduate students from Texas A&M as well as other colleges and universities the opportunity to participate in ongoing research with faculty members during a 10-week period in the summer.
Each summer, chemical engineering-REU students participate in the final USRG poster session, competing with students from other programs throughout the Dwight Look College of Engineering. Sugg, who is supervised by Assistant Professor Zhilei Chen received top honors for his submission.
USRG is a summer undergraduate research program organized by the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M.
