Jennifer Burris has been awarded a Graduate Research Associate Mentoring (GRAM) Grant from the Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies to fund graduate research associate (GRA) during the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years. The GRA will work in the Biophysics and Optical Science Facility (BiyOSeF), using the optical techniques of Raman spectroscopy and Optical tweezers, or Raman-tweezers.