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Yale Center for Excellence in Genome Science
Program DescriptionOverviewThe Minority Action Plan (MAP) program sponsored by the Yale Center for Excellence in Genome Sciences has elements in K-12 education and in undergraduate and graduate research programs. The goal is to expose students to concepts, courses and research activities that will interest and excite them to pursue a career in research science and genomics in particular. The two anchoring programs are STARS and S.C.H.O.L.A.R. with other K-12 activities being developed and interspersed throughout the year. Students are largely underrepresented minorities in the sciences from the New Haven community for K-12. STARS students come from a variety places as Yale undergraduate recruits. The STARS ProgramThe STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program provides first year students through seniors with an integrated experience in research, course-based study and development of mentorship skills. STARS identifies and supports traditionally underrepresented students, including racial/ethnic minorities, women and physically challenged students, in any of Yale's natural sciences and engineering majors. Since its inception in 1995, STARS has been providing academic enrichment and research opportunities for first year students and sophomores. The program has now expanded to include juniors and seniors in STARS II and to increase the number of STARS I summer fellows. More than 100 students each year participate in the academic year and summer STARS programs. STARS I is composed of two major components: a term-time program and a summer program. The core of the STARS I academic year program is a series of study group workshops that mirror the first and second year courses in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Faculty advisors and a graduate student from each department supervise the workshops. Each workshop also has an undergraduate facilitator who has previously taken the same course; undergraduate facilitators receive training and a stipend to support the development of mentorship skills. During the summer, STARS I provides support for participation of first and second year students in research in the laboratory of a Yale faculty member. The STARS II program provides an intensive research experience for juniors and seniors. During the academic year, STARS II scholars receive a stipend to support up to 10 hours a week of research in the laboratory of a faculty mentor. In the summer, the program provides stipend support for students to continue their research for eight weeks. Each spring, STARS II scholars present their research to student and faculty STARS program participants at the STARS II Symposium. STARS students enjoy a number of structured enrichment activities during term-time. Special dinners bring together scientists in various disciplines from Yale and other schools, graduate and medical school panels provide guidance in career development, and scholars are encouraged to attend national and regional science conferences. The STARS Program is made possible through the generous support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) Pharmaceuticals. For further information about the STARS Program, please contact the Program Directors: Dean Pamela George (E-mail), or at (203) 432-4132, or Dr. Iona Black (E-mail), or at (203) 432-3316 Principal Investigators (PI):
The S.C.H.O.L.A.R. Program
In 1996 Hill Regional Career High School and Yale University's Schools of Medicine and Nursing signed an educational partnership. The partnership recognized the University's leading role in life science research and is a natural extension of Yale's own educational mission. It pledged to make the resources of the University available to the faculty and students of the High School. Over the years faculty members from New Haven High Schools and Yale University have worked together to revise and realign the science courses, create new course offerings and internships, and design and implement S.C.H.O.L.A.R. The participating high school sophomores are introduced to genetics and developmental cell biology concepts, while juniors, many of whom are at Yale for their second summer, study chemistry using Yale's new 250-gallon salt-water tank. Seniors perfect their laboratory skills in the morning and work on college applications each afternoon. Students work in small study groups of seven students per teacher. Faculty from Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools jointly staff the program. All courses use Problem Based Learning (PBL) instructional methods. Program activities include: For further information about The S.C.H.O.L.A.R. Program contact:
Graduate and Undergraduate students may apply for a job in S.C.H.O.L.A.R. CEGS K-12 Outreach
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