Auburn School District No. 408
915 4th Street Northeast, Auburn, WA  98002

4/6/06

NEWS RELEASE
Two Auburn Juniors Selected to Study
Infectious Diseases During Summer Break 

Eugeny Polupan, a junior at Auburn Mountainview High School, and Allison Frost, a junior at Auburn Riverside High School, were selected to serve a summer internship with the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI). Eugeny and Allison will work directly with scientists in the research and study of infectious disease.

SBRI studies 11 of the most infectious diseases in the world—including Malaria, African Sleeping Sickness, trypanosomes, Chagas Disease, Leishmaniasis, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS—and targets the world’s most underserved populations. Eugeny and Allison will focus their summer work in the study of one of these diseases. SBRI will continue to support Eugeny and Allison in their senior years of high school, as SBRI notifies them of scholarship opportunities, writes letters of recommendation for their college applications, and invites them to participate in SBRI events as docents. The program is funded by the Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation and the Byron and Alice Lockwood Foundation.

For more information, contact Deborah Rumbaugh, Auburn Mountainview High School Science Department Chair, at (253) 804-4539, or Judy Shaw, Auburn Riverside High School Science Department Chair, at (253) 804-5154.