Queensborough Community College has a history of involving undergraduate students in scientific research. Most recently the college has received several grants for this purpose, including an NSF STEP grant, two NSF REUs (one in physics and one in atmospheric science), and a NIH Bridges grant.  Students that participate in undergraduate research initiatives have higher scores in STEM classes and are more likely to graduate.  To this effect Queensborough is looking to scale-up the undergraduate research experience and will perhaps even institutionalize it.  The speaker will discuss how she has tried to incorporate research in a community college setting.  She is a member of Council on Undergraduate Research.  She is a faculty mentor for NSF-STEP for the last 5 years, NSF-REU for the last 3 years and was a mentor for the NIH-Bridges program for 4 years as well.  She has mentored over 25 students in her molecular and cellular biology lab at QCC.  She has received internal CUNY as well as external funding for Copper Development Association to support the research supplies and student support for the research work.  Her students have won poster presentation awards at ABRCMS national conference three years in a row.   New DOE-JGI undergraduate research Genome Annotation program allows research projects to become part of the curriculum and will increase the number of students involved in research at QCC.  Biotechnology students will also be accepted for internships at Cold Spring Harbor Lab starting next year.

Involving undergraduates in biotechnology/bioinformatics research at QCC

246th National Meeting (2013)

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