{"id":5170,"date":"2026-04-09T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:28:39","slug":"biology-student-earns-prestigious-national-research-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/04\/09\/biology-student-earns-prestigious-national-research-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology student earns prestigious national research fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vinu Chandrasekar, a pre\u2011medicine and biology major in Marshall University\u2019s College of Science, has been selected for the American Physiological Society\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). Chandrasekar will participate in the highly competitive national program while conducting hands\u2011on physiology research alongside Dr. Pierre.<\/p>\n<p>The SURF program provides funding, travel support, and professional development opportunities designed to prepare students for careers in laboratory research and biomedical science. Chandrasekar\u2019s selection reflects academic excellence and a strong commitment to scientific research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinu Chandrasekar, a pre\u2011medicine and biology major in Marshall University\u2019s College of Science, has been selected for the American Physiological Society\u2019s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). Chandrasekar will participate in the highly competitive national program while conducting hands\u2011on physiology research alongside Dr. Pierre. The SURF program provides funding, travel support, and professional development opportunities designed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":5171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-chandraekar-american-physiological-society-surf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}