Queensborough Community College is one of the seven community colleges that are part of the City University of New York. Through the support of the college administration, first, and later an NSF-STEP grant, undergraduate research has been instituted as a freshman impact activity. This has led to numerous conference presentations by the students and close to two dozen peer-reviewed journal publications that bear the students' names since 2000. In addition students from diverse communities and backgrounds have been actively supported into summer REU experiences, tutoring opportunities as well as the opportunity to summarize invited speakers' seminars. All these activities enhance the students' self-confidence and create a cohort that overcomes any ethnic, age, gender or religious differences.

Fostering diversity in the chemical sciences through undergraduate research at Queensborough Community College

248th National Meeting (2014)

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