Terrell Morton a senior chemistry major at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, recently received an award for research he presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Orlando, Fla.

ABRCMS is an annual conference organized by the American Society for Microbiology and supported by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It is the largest professional conference for biomedical students. The symposium is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and to provide faculty mentors with resources for facilitating the success of these students.

More than 1,200 students participated in poster and oral presentations in 10 subdisciplines of the biomedical and behavioral sciences. All undergraduate student presentations were judged by active-researcher scientists and those students receiving the highest scores in each scientific discipline and in each educational level were given awards. During the four-day conference, more than 1,200 student presented poster and oral presentations on their research in biomedical and behavioral sciences.

Morton was one of 126 undergraduates who received monetary awards for their outstanding research. The 2009 ABRCMS has been scheduled for November 4-7, in Phoenix, Ariz. For more information, visit www.abrcms.org.