Student presents research poster at symposium

Texas A&M University-Victoria senior Normalinda Escalante, right, and Elena Yang, a freshman from The University of Texas at Austin who participated in the research last year as a high school student, stand with their research poster on Oct. 9 during the 9th Annual Symposium Cancer Research: Basic Science to Bioinformatics hosted at Texas A&M University in College Station. Their research was titled, “Understanding Genetic Data: The Advancing Development of Clinical Stratification and Precision Oncology Through Machine Learning.” In addition to presenting research, the students attended research presentations by professors from universities across Texas and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Texas A&M University-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 50 academic programs in the colleges of Business, Education & Health Professions, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, and Natural & Applied Science. A&M-Victoria provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as online classes that students can take from anywhere. The university supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.