The Research Introduction Program offers training in laboratory safety, scientific methodology, and research design for high schoolers. Students worked in a laboratory four hours each day for five weeks, developed genetics research projects, and produced research papers. The Research Apprenticeship Program offers an intensive research experience for eleventh and twelfth graders and high school science teachers. Participants worked with faculty preceptors on ongoing health sciences laboratory research. This group worked forty hours a week for eight weeks, produced scientific posters describing their research, and presented the posters at the recognition ceremony.
Participants attend classes six hours a day for six weeks.
HCOP Club gives undergraduate students opportunities to learn more about health professions and apply to a health professions school. Kudos Apostolos Georgopoulos recently received the George Morgan Award for Creativity and Innovation in Interdisciplinary Education from Brown University and gave the Annual Distinguished Lecture in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. Georgopoulos is professor of physiology and director of the Brain Sciences Center at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. Liz Ingulli , a postdoctoral researcher in Marc Jenkins laboratory, just published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Medicine . The paper provides the first in vivo glimpse of antigen-presentation to T lymphocytes.