Iowa State University undergraduate student Ella McGrath is one of 12 students who received a newly funded scholarship this semester, the Wentz-Griswold Agricultural Undergraduate Research Scholars Award. The award seeks to engage undergraduate students in research opportunities and get them involved in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Pathways to Innovation and Leadership program.
McGrath is working with Dior Kelley, genetics, development and cell biology associate professor. The project McGrath, a junior in horticulture, is working on this semester is “Regulation of Root Development by Auxin Pathway Genes.”
The complete article on the award recipients, "Inaugural Wentz-Griswold Scholars cohort announced," is on the CALS website.