{"id":43510,"date":"2021-04-28T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/?p=43510"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:14:44","slug":"gerren-welch-institute-of-medicine-fellowship-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/2021\/04\/28\/gerren-welch-institute-of-medicine-fellowship-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerren Welch: Institute of Medicine Fellowship recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of 海角社区\u2019s Center for Undergraduate Research announced in November the first winners for two recently established fellowship programs<\/a>.\u00a0 Supported by the Office of Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, CUGR created the U海角社区 Institute of Medicine and U海角社区 Artificial Intelligence fellowships this year and awarded fellowships to fourteen undergraduate students for the 2020\u20132021 academic year. Undergraduate proposals were awarded $1,200 each.<\/p>\n

Gerren Welch is an undergraduate student at the University of 海角社区 majoring in physics and minoring in biology and mathematics. He is researching the computational analysis and classification of SHG images of cancerous pancreatic tissue based on collagen fiber alignment in the lab of Dr. Karissa Tilbury.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI really enjoy the hands-on stuff, getting to be in the room with the laser putting the samples in, imaging them, and finding the little things that come up and can be fixed; the research I am doing is a piece that fits in a larger whole,\u201d Gerren said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy research may play an important role in speeding up what pathologists do, discovering cancer in people.\u201d The research Gerren is doing is especially important because it helps with the early detection of pancreatic cancer, which generally can only be caught in the later stages.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am really able to focus on school and research thanks to the fellowship,\u201d says Gerren, who also is a part of the music community here at U海角社区.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He says, \u201cI, of course, love learning about physics and math, but the music community helps me keep my sanity throughout all of the studying.\u201d Gerren plays the euphonium, trumpet, and trombone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of 海角社区\u2019s Center for Undergraduate Research announced in November the first winners for two recently established fellowship programs.\u00a0 Supported by the Office of Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, CUGR created the U海角社区 Institute of Medicine and U海角社区 Artificial Intelligence fellowships this year and awarded fellowships to fourteen undergraduate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"8","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":8,"label":"Student"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cferguson","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/author\/cferguson\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":8,"name":"Student","slug":"student","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":8,"category_count":38,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Student","category_nicename":"student","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43510"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43531,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43510\/revisions\/43531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}