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STONY
BROOK UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES (URECA) RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH
STONY BROOK, N.Y., October 6, 2009
—Stony Brook University has announced its Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Researcher for the
month of August is Jeffrey Fei.
Fei, is an Honors college biochemistry major and was
mentored by Dr. Steven Smith in the Department of
Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He has completed the first
half of Stony Brook's Scholars for Medicine program, an
integrated 8-year Bachelor's/M.D. program within Stony
Brook’s Honors College & School of Medicine, with academic
distinction — graduating summa cum laude.
His dedication to and potential for research which focuses
predominantly on Biochemistry and Structural Biology has
been recognized with a Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Research Fellowship (05), the URECA Summer Research program
awards (06, 07), and the premier Beckman Scholars Program
award (08-09). Fei is a former Intel semifinalist and
recently presented a research poster, “Structures of
phospholamban in membrane bilayers” at the Beckman symposium
in Irvine, California.
Fei was nationally honored with a Barry M. Goldwater
scholarship in 2008 and in 2009 was awarded the SUNY
Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence and the Provost
Award for Academic Excellence.
Fei, 21 is a graduate of Ward Melville High School and lives
in South Setauket.
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