Fall 2003 Newsletter: The Bernice Goldblatt Fellowship

In 1997, the Cancer Research Foundation established the Bernice Goldblatt Fellowship. This permanent endowment at the University of Chicago provides annual income to support a first year graduate student in the Biological Sciences Division who is a candidate for a Ph.D. to be issued by the Committee on Cancer Biology.

Rebecca Conkling has been chosen by the Committee on Cancer Biology as the year 2002 Bernice Goldblatt Fellow. Rebecca graduated cum laude with a degree in Biology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.She entered Binghamton University with a clear goal in mind: to learn everything she could about molecular biology, with the goal of eventually conducting research applicable to human health. Rebecca has worked in research laboratories at Binghamton University as an undergraduate, and, beginning in the summer of 2002, in the laboratory of Dr. M. Eileen Dolan at the University of Chicago.