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Show Cancer research done I join ongoing research or initiate a new project on their own or with faculty members. About 60 fellowships are awarded each year, while an additional ad-ditional 300 undergraduate students work on research projects pro-jects for credit or volunteer experience. ex-perience. UROP is part of the university's undergraduate in- LAYTON A 1981 Layton High School graduate has written a research article published pub-lished in the University of Utah "Journal of Undergraduate Research" Re-search" that will help advance the treatment of human colon cancer with lasers. Peril N. Winn, 27, is the son of J. LaVeme Schoenecker, 2424 E. 2200 N., Layton. He is a senior with a double major in mathematics and biology and a minor in computer science. With the help of Dr. Kenneth N. Buchi, University of Utah assistant professor of gastroenterology, Winn injected cancer cells underneath the skin of mice that were used as models for treatment of human colon cancer. When tumors developed, mice were exposed to light from an argon dye laser that penetrated cancer cells beneath the skin. The "Journal of Undergraduate Research," which publishes academic articles ar-ticles emerging from student-faculty student-faculty research collaborations, is part of the University of Utah's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Fellowships are offered to encourage en-courage student involvement in faculty research. Students can PERRI N.WINN itiatives effort to enhance undergraduate education. The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery has invited Winn to present an addi-' tional paper on related research during an April conference in San Diego. Winn plans to attend the University Uni-versity of Utah School of Medicine Med-icine after graduation. |