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First-year Harvard Medical School student Shantanu K. Gaur ’08 was sitting in the Dorchester home of a 75-year-old colorectal cancer patient in February when he received a phone call informing him that he had been awarded the prestigious $72,000 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship. But instead of taking the call, Gaur silenced his cell phone and continued his home interview with the patient. It was only later that he checked his voicemail messages to learn that he was one of eight Harvard graduate students to snag the award. The fellowship recognizes new Americans?...
...pursue careers in academic medicine. Thomas M. Michel ’77, the director of human biology and translational medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and Gregory A. Llacer, the director of the Harvard Program for Research in Science and Engineering Gregory, also spoke at the event. Shantanu K. Gaur ’08 organized the first-ever Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium last year, but passed the responsibility for this weekend’s event on to the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association, which was approved as a student group in April...
...Gaur hopes to continue expanding what he called “interdisciplinary cross-talk” in undergraduate research, both through future symposiums and through a listserv that would include the presidents of science-oriented student groups...
...future of research at Harvard is not insular and isolated, as it has been in the past,” Gaur said. “This is a great time to be an undergraduate here...
...Gaur said that he received 120 abstract submissions...