Max Laws

a biomedical engineering student, received the MWA Winter 2014 Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Applying for the fellowship required a grant-like application including a thorough project description, research environment documentation, a summary of my academics/extracurriculars/goals, and faculty recommendations.

The $4000 award will supplement Laws' ongoing summer research, "Physical (in)activity-mediated changes in functionally different sympathetic outputs and mean arterial pressure." The research will culminate in a conference presentation or peer reviewed publication.

"This fellowship allows me to establish a track record for research funding with the American Heart Association that will hopefully carry on into my graduate career and will allow me to act as my own principal investigator within my research project," says Laws.