IOWA LAKES STUDENT COMPLETES RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
THROUGH NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT

An Iowa Lakes Community College student recently completed a Research Experience for Undergraduates internship at Iowa State University.

Tasida Fisher, Spirit Lake, was selected as one of only 12 students in the nation to participate in this select summer internship experience at Iowa State

Students worked directly with a ‘majors’ professor for eight weeks on a research experience in Molecular Biotechnology and Genomics.

Fisher received $4,500 from the National Science Foundation through a paid internship to work on a project which was a study of the role of Asp181 in Itk Kinase Autophosphorylation through Mutation.

This was a partnership activity between Iowa State’s NSF project and the NSF biotechnology project at Iowa Lakes.

Fisher was thankful for the guidance and knowledge her summer professors gave throughout the project.

She also was pleased with the encouragement she received to apply and participate in the project that she received from Iowa Lakes.

“I would also like to thank the faculty and staff at Iowa lakes that made my internship here possible: Matt Abbott, Gary Phillips, Jolene Rogers and Dr. Robert Klepper,” said Fisher.

And thanks went out to family members.

“The love, encouragement and blessing of my husband and best friend, Bryan Fisher, and to my son, Levi Fisher who have greatly contributed to my success at Iowa Lakes and the opportunity to participate in the REU-NSF summer internship program,” Fisher said.

Opportunities like this will be available in future years and students at Iowa Lakes will be encouraged to apply next year.

Fisher’s compilation of her findings have been on display as a poster at the Estherville campus.

Tasida Fisher is pictured next to the poster outlining her work
with the National Science Foundation.