The Office of the Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the Provost created the program in 1987 to recognize creative research collaborations between faculty and doctoral students.
Students receive a tuition waiver, health benefits and a stipend.
Preference was given to interdisciplinary projects. The researchers believe that social systems characterized by these female dominance hierarchies may contribute to understanding the selective background for several prominent social situations such as helpers at the nest and queen-worker sociality. Growth hormone is known to regulate body growth and metabolism, but the mechanism by which it does so is only now being deliniated. Identification of these proteins will provide insight into the mechanisms by which growth hormones and other cytokines that activate JAK kinases elicit their diverse and important effects in the cell. They will use the funds to attend a semester on Bergman Spaces and related topics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.