Undergrad research opportunities in ASU's New College are helping students like Julie Furmick thrive.
Julie Furmick is a senior life sciences major in ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Under the tutelage of Assistant Professor Peter Jurutka, and through the university’s SOLUR program, she has seized the college’s undergraduate research opportunities and is successfully working on the alleviation of side effects particular to a secondary cancer medication, Bexarotene.
Jurutka, a member of the Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences faculty roster, says the undergraduate research being done on the West campus makes New College a special place to learn and thrive.
“Research is important to undergraduate students because it provides an opportunity for them to directly employ the theories that they learn in their core classes. Successful translation of knowledge into real-world solutions is a skill set that will make our students valuable and highly desirable employees in a 21st-century workplace after they graduate.”
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