“A Ton of Opportunities for Undergraduate Students”: Bowdoin’s Jennifer Honeycutt on $19.4 Million NIH Grant

The grant funds the renewal of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Maine INBRE) program, a collaboration among seventeen educational and research institutions, including Bowdoin College.

Led by MDI Bio Lab in Bar Harbor, the network provides training, research experiences, and financial support to help young Mainers play a bigger role in today's biomedical revolution, qualifying them for careers in a field that is making rapid advances in human health.

"This particular program opens up a ton of opportunities for undergraduate students, especially those who typically wouldn't have the experience of having a hands-on, one-on-one research experience in the lab," Jennifer Honeycutt, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, told CBS affiliate WABI-TV at an event announcing the grant renewal.

"This gives those students training opportunities at other institutions across the collaborating colleges, allows them to get into the research that they are interested in that maybe they don't have at their own university or college, and also expands their mentorship network."

As a student, Honeycutt, the first in her family to go to college, recognized science as a way to ask and answer the world's complex questions and now mentors other students, including those in the INBRE program, reports the Portland Press Herald. Honeycutt also appears in coverage by NBC affiliate WCSH.

Read how the INBRE grant renewal is supporting Honeycutt's work at Bowdoin.