A collaborative initiative between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, the De Novo program offers fellowships to exceptional undergraduate students to conduct research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The fellowship is aimed to support students with outstanding academic records and who also may have overcome financial challenges and/or may not have had role models in their field of interest who reflected their own experience. CAS De Novo Fellowships provide a $6,000 stipend for up to 10 weeks of full-time research, as well as up to $1,000 for conference expenses related to presenting their research in the subsequent academic year.
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Meet the 2025 College Fellow
Isabella Enriquez ’26
BiologyDevelopment of a Fluorescence-Based Assay to Measure DNA and RNA Polymerase Activity
Faculty Mentor: Angel Islas