Engineer is First Recipient of Baskin Undergraduate Research Award

During the Spring Commencement Ceremony on June 15, 2007, the first annual Ronald and Lydia Baskin Undergraduate Research Award was presented to Edgar Sanchez.

Graduating in biomedical engineering with a 3.915 grade point average, Sanchez established a distinguished record of accomplishment in research. He completed research projects at both UC Davis and UC Irvine, and his efforts in these studies will contribute towards the development and understanding of optical methods to diagnose and treat brain cancers known as gliomas.

Sanchez enters the Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) this fall.

Students from all UC Davis undergraduate colleges are eligible for the newly created Baskin Research Award for undergraduate research in the biological sciences.