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Bethany Howard, ReBUILDetroit scholar, holds a snail while learning about urban farming at D-Town Farms in Detroit during the Summer Enrichment Program. ReBUILDetroit’s Summer Enrichment Program is designed to provide training on developing academic skills for students following high school graduation. Students attend lectures to prepare them for a college career in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, and they learn about skills that will help them succeed in college, such as time-management and mentoring.
A group of Morgan State ASCEND Summer Research Institute 2017 students (and one faculty member) come together in the ASCEND-supported Core Laboratory.
The Summer Research Institute is an 8-week program in which students participate in seminars and workshops to learn about the scientific method and basic research methodology, and health and biomedical disciplines. They develop the skills needed to prepare a team-based research proposal, go on field trips and site visits, and take part in peer-to-peer learning and mentoring.
Paola Perez, an electrical engineering student at UTEP’s BUILDing SCHOLARS program, analyzes semiconductor nonwires using tramission electron microscopy and raman spectroscopy at The University of Texas at Austin in the Nanoelectronics Research Lab. Her mentor is Feng Wen.
Zahraa Alhabib practices her pipetting during the Summer Enrichment Program for incoming ReBUILDetroit scholars.
The Summer Research Experience is an 8-week summer program that provides an in-depth research experience in which students gain laboratory research experience while being mentored by faculty. They participate in learning communities, and present their research in a poster session at the end of the program.
Andrew Cyr, BLaST Graduate Mentoring Research Assistant with the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, presents a One Health workshop about fish dissection and sampling techniques to five Soil and Water Conservation Camp Habitat student participants.
The clinic demonstrated how fish can be used as biomonitoring tools to track environmental, wildlife, and human health through the study of contaminants and fish ecology. This is a participatory clinic, with each student receiving their own fish to dissect and sample, and learning about clean techniques, sample preservation and use and links between fish ecology and human and environmental health.
Xavier BUILD students take a group photo during a summer field trip to Tulane University Health Sciences Center, a partner institution with Xavier’s BUILD program. The students were hosted by their partner liaison, Dr. L. Gabriel Navar (far right). The BUILD participants in the photo are:
Front, left to right: Natalie Faciane, Tamia Luster, Starr Villavasso, Nghi Pham, Kerian Thomas, Lauren Goodes, Olivia Griswold
Back, left to right: Josiah Sherman, Lee Meteyor, Alyasia Madison, Nhu Tran, Tyjah Saulsberry, Arylsse Rodney, Anna Smith, Amy Nguyen, Dr. L. Gabriel Navar
All the Morgan State ASCEND Summer Research Institute 2017 students work in the active learning classroom at Morgan State University. Please see Photo 2 for more information on the Summer Research Institute.
Miya Walker and research mentor Dr. Raina Croff present at the Gerontological Society of America National Conference in New Orleans.
Miya Walker, who graduated this spring, spent the past year doing research with the Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo-imagery (SHARP) walking program. She worked with older African Americans to promote proactive behaviors in maintaining cognitive health. Next for Miya is a move to Washington D.C. for an internship with the Washington AIDS Partnership.
MIMB students watch as underground microbe samples are collected using an auger drill.
BLaST collaborated with Iḷisaġvik College, Alaska’s only tribal college, in the Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB) 2-week, 2-credit intensive summer camp. This was held June 4-17 in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. Nine students from all over Alaska attended the camp, led by BLaST Laboratory Research and Teaching Technician Joanna Green, BLaST Graduate Mentoring Research Assistant Taylor Gofstein, and Iḷisaġvik faculty Linda Nicholas-Figueroa. Inspired by Arctic Microbes, an ongoing research project at Iḷisaġvik, students learned advanced techniques including soil sample collection, microbial culturing, environmental monitoring, and DNA extraction. The students also learned from visiting Alaska Native Elders who discussed locally relevant climate change they have seen, that aligns with research done by scientists in this region. At the end of the course, students presented their work to the community at the local Tuzzy Library.
