"As an undergraduate researcher, I am learning things that I am so excited about. I finally get to use my education and put it to use. It isn’t just pictures and text in books anymore."
-Brittney McKenzie, GenOM ALVA 2008
The GenOM Project is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and in part by the Genentech Foundation. The program provides educational and research opportunities as well as academic support for underrepresented minority students interested in genomics and life sciences research at the University of Washington.
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GenOM ALVA Application Decisions Will Be Mailed by April 20th»
The GenOM ALVA Summer program is a 9 week residential research program for incoming freshmen to the University of Washington interested in life sciences.
GenOM has Won the Seattle SHRM Award for Diversity and Inclusion! »
The Seattle chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management honored GenOM with an award for Diversity and Inclusion in education at their annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference.
Congratulations to GenOM's Dr. Lori Miller, Now a Postdoc at UC Davis! »
Lori worked as the graduate assistant and bioethics instructor with GenOM while completing her PhD in Nursing at the University of Washington. She began her postdoctoral program at UC Davis in fall 2011.