GRIT at UVA

Happy almost weekend 🥳 Final introduction for our 22’-23’ GRIT council!! Meet our Communications Chair Sarah! Sarah is a 3rd year MIC student in Natasha Sheybani’s lab. Her project focuses on leveraging therapeutic ultrasound to potentiate liquid biopsy in preclinical models. Sarah spends her time outside the lab listening to music 🎧, crafting 🧶, and watching anime with her friends.

It’s hump day! It’s almost the weekend 😩

Anyways…

Let’s welcome our 22’-23’ Treasurer Raquel (she/her)! Raquel is a 3rd year student in Manoj Patel’s lab where she studies genetic epilepsies (she loves patch clamping!). Raquel spends her time outside the lab at a local ceramics studio where she makes functional ceramic art! She also loves social dancing 💃🏻, rock climbing 🧗‍♀️, and playing video games 🎮.

Let’s continue our welcome week by introducing our Secretary Sarah (she/her)! Sarah is a 3rd year Pathology student in Hui Li’s lab where she studies chimeric RNAs as targets in colorectal cancer. Outside the lab, Sarah enjoys being outdoors, reading, and hanging out with her dog, Peaches! 🐶

Welcome Sarah (and honorary member Peaches 🍑) to the UVA GRIT council of 22’-23’!!!

TW: su***de awareness



In partnership with , GRIT is taking part in the American Foundation for Su***de Prevention's charity walk. Join us at the Amphitheater at 10am on April 10th and donate to our team (link in bio)!

We are PUMPED for Second Look this week!! 🙌🙌 There's some awesome stuff planned and be on the 👀lookout👀 for emails about your GRIT buddy! We were able to match ✨16 recruits✨ to current UVA students based on identity - an initiative born from ! 🎉

That's a wrap on GRIT Day 2021!! 👏🎉👏🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who participated, and to our sponsors for their support!

Happy GRIT Day!! ☀️ Our last board member is Kendra Liu, who is our communications chair! She's from Goodyear, Arizona 🌵and is a 3rd year in Sarah Kucenas' lab. Her research is focused on cell death and clearance in neurodevelopment. ☠️🧠 Outside of lab, Kendra enjoys playing Pokémon and cuddling with her cat, Bean. 🐱

IT'S A DAY BEFORE GRIT DAY! So it's the perfect time to introduce Phoebe Cook, who is GRIT’s Treasurer. 💕💸💰💵💕 She is a fifth-year from Adamant, Vermont and studies the evolution of beetle social networks with Butch Brodie in the Biology department. 🪲🪲 When she isn’t running around the woods looking for beetles 🌲🌲, she’s running around the woods looking for people with the Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group! ⛑️🏃💨

Today is Taylor Day! 🌻 Taylor Nystrom is GRIT’s secretary and a silly billy. She is a 3rd year in the biology department, working on a collaboration between the Siegrist and Bergland labs, and her work focuses on how nutrition and natural genetic variation interact during neurogenesis. 🪰🧠 In addition to doing research, Taylor feels very passionate about science education and increasing community access to research science. When she is not doing or talking about science, Taylor likes to rock climb, read books, garden, and pet dogs. 🧗‍♀📚🧑‍🌾🐶 Taylor is also the GOAT (greatest of all time)! 🤩🏅

What?? Two posts from GRIT this week? You're right! 🤩 It's cause we can't wait to introduce Rachana Bhave! 👏👏 Rachana is GRIT's VP for Biology. She is a 6th year from Pune, India and studies sexual selection in lizards with Bob Cox in the Department of Biology. 🦎🦎When she is not thinking about lizards mating, she enjoys swimming 🏊‍♀🥽, strength training 🏋‍♂, playing with the resident cat 🐱, or lurking on youtube and social media. She is also passionate about teaching and is currently procrastinating by reading & thinking about the philosophy of higher ed and its intersection with race, gender, democracy, class and caste. If not in lab, you will find her at the cozy Atlas Coffee! ☕️