Biochemistry professor Marvin Wickens is the recipient of the 2019 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) Award for Excellence in International Activities. Wickens founded and runs two research abroad programs for undergraduate biochemistry majors and other biological sciences students at UW–Madison.
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SCORE, SUPER-G students take the ‘plunge’ and experience research in Europe
Not every student will go skydiving while doing research abroad like biochemistry undergraduate Meng Lou. However, they can take a plunge by making the decision to travel to a country they’ve never been to and perform research there in a scientific laboratory. In 2016, Lou traveled to Germany’s European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), located in Heidelberg, to …