Two UNMC graduate students are among the eight national finalists in The Science Coalition’s Fund It Forward Video Challenge.
Wilson Blomberg’s video on UNMC’s “Moon Team” and its research with HIV/AIDS, and Tyler Kambis and Sumit Kar’s video on how National Institutes of Health funding is helping UNMC researchers treat diabetes are among the finalists for the coalition’s challenge, which is to create a 60- to 90-second video detailing why scientific research matters for the future. Blomberg is a graduate assistant in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience. Kambis and Kar are graduate assistants in the UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy.
Public online voting begins today, and voting will run through Nov. 25 to determine the winner of the People’s Choice Award.
The winner of the People’s Choice Award will get a $500 prize.
The Science Coalition (TSC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of more than 50 research universities. The coalition is dedicated to growing America’s investment in fundamental science, but we cannot take support for research funding for granted. At a time of competing priorities, it is important that Congress hear why robust federal support for research is critical for the future.