Almaden’s Jeff Chang wins Johns Hopkins University research award

Jeff Chang, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscience major from Almaden, has been selected to receive research support to pursue an independent research project. Chang, who is a senior in the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences this fall, is one of 34 students selected to receive research support under a Johns Hopkins program called the Provost's Undergraduate Awards for Research and Excellence.

"The awards are intended to encourage undergraduate involvement in original research," said Steven Knapp, the university's provost and vice president for academic affairs. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins, the leader among the nation's research universities in winning federal research and development grants.

Winners of the awards come from each of the four Hopkins schools with full-time undergraduates: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Nursing and the Peabody Institute.

Chang will be working this fall on a project titled “The Role of IP3 Receptors in Visual Cortical Long Term Depression” with faculty advisor Alfred Kirkwood. Chang is the son of Oran and Jiunn Chang and attended Simonds Elementary School, Bret Harte Middle School and Leland High School.