Junior Lauren Griffith, a Mansfield University cell and molecular biology major, received a $4,000 research scholarship from the NASA Pennsylvania State Grant Consortium. Griffith’s funded proposal focuses on the link between the gut microbiome and cancer development and spread. Griffith was also awarded a Summer 2022 internship through the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Short-Term Research Experience Program to Unlock Potential (STEP-UP) program.