{"id":1314,"date":"2019-06-06T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.goodlayers.com\/infinite\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2019-11-26T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T17:43:39","slug":"professor-albert-joint-research-on-mobile-money-in-tanzania-is-highlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/2019\/06\/06\/professor-albert-joint-research-on-mobile-money-in-tanzania-is-highlighted\/","title":{"rendered":"UDC Cancer Biology Students Fight to Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 4,830 new cases of cancer and 1,660 deaths each day according to the American Cancer Society, and UDC students in the master\u2019s degree program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control are fighting to change those statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

The University of the District of Columbia is the only university in the Washington metropolitan area offering the degree and is working in partnership with Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center. The program offers students a unique research and training opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students can apply their aptitude in science toward changing the healthcare disparities that challenge the Washington DC community. Students benefit from UDC\u2019s focus on community behavior and outreach and Georgetown\u2019s research capacity. By learning from active faculty researchers and taking advantage of opportunities to engage with the community, students can make a difference in addressing health disparities and contribute to cutting edge research. <\/span><\/p>\n

The program was launched by funding from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.  Since its inception, several grants have been awarded to the program and many of its students have acquired doctorate degrees or advancements in their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students applying for admission into the master\u2019s degree program in Biology must hold a bachelor\u2019s degree in biological sciences from an accredited educational institution; or have earned an equivalent degree in biology or natural sciences from a recognized college or university in another country and a minimum grade point average of 3.0. <\/span><\/p>\n

Master\u2019s degree program students are exposed to topics such as Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Education, Outreach, and Field Study, Tumor Biology, and Principles and Practices of Behavior Science in Cancer Control.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>\n

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Students from the program are highly sought after and go on to medical school and serve in numerous capacities in medical research. Current students are afforded numerous opportunities to share their research and attend conferences, as well as tuition support through funding from the UDC Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful to the UDC Foundation for giving me an opportunity to present my research at the international conference of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018 in New Orleans by facilitating the registration, travel and accommodation expenses,\u201d said Swara Bhaskar Yadav, a master\u2019s student in the program who presented a poster presentation at the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis conference also gave me an opportunity to meet and interact with several stalwarts from the field of tropical medicine and diseases. There couldn\u2019t have been a better platform for students like us to be introduced to directors of various institutes, principal investigators of leading laboratories and eminent researchers in tropical diseases.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

A highly successful presentation resulted in a solicitation from a P.I. from Case Western Reserve University, inviting her to pursue her Ph.D. there upon completion of the UDC master\u2019s program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this was made possible because of the generous offer of the UDC Foundation to support me to attend the conference, and for this, I am truly grateful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of blist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-arts-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/foundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}