Melba Njenga
  • Political Science and Biology
  • Class of 2016
  • Littleton, CO

Melba Njenga presented at Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium at Fort Lewis College

2016 May 10

The Fort Lewis College School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Symposium on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Student participants were selected by their departments to represent the best undergraduate research and performances done at Fort Lewis College this year. Each department selects two students to give talks, and up to five groups of students to present posters or performances. Many of these students have also presented at professional conferences in their disciplines.

Melba Njenga, of Littleton, CO, was part of a team that presented a project titled "Regulation of miR-132 Expression and Viral Entry in MRC-5 Cells via HCMV Infection and Ganciclovir Administration," supervised by faculty mentor David Blake. Njenga's major is Biology .

The presentations can be seen on the Fort Lewis College You Tube channel via the archived live streams of the Morning & Afternoon sessions.