Allison Nunez Won NIH Grant

The National Institutes of Health have awarded Allison Nunez a $60,500 grant to study gender and minority career disparities in biomedical science. Ms. Nunez is a PhD student in the Economics Department writing her thesis under the supervision of Professor Gerald Marschke. Her work will document and attempt to explain disparities in the career advancement of biomedical science researchers from underrepresented groups using electronic databases of the biomedical scientific literature, big data methods, and state-of-the-art statistical and econometric tools. The grant will support her for the 2018-2019 academic year.