| Dr. Daniel Moloney has been awarded a 5 year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to direct the Bridges to the Baccalaureate program called BioPREP (Biology Partnership in Research and Education Program) at Stony Brook University that will begin this summer (June 2008) and continue through the summer of 2012. The program seeks to attract talented community college students from disadvantaged populations who are interested in biomedical careers and help them succeed at achieving their goals.
This grant will provide an opportunity for up to twenty-four underrepresented community college students each year to spend at least five weeks of the summer living on campus and working in a molecular biology laboratory where they perform independent research projects. BioPREP has been a highly successful program. It was conceived by Dr. David Bynum who directed the program for the last fourteen years (from 1994). Since inception, more than 300 community college students have participated in the program. 75% of these participants have obtained or are in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s degree with more than 80% of these degrees in math, science or a biomedical field. Approximately 25% of BioPREP alumni are pursuing or have obtained a graduate degree. Dr. Moloney is grateful to work with Dr. Jennie Williams (Cancer Prevention Center) as the program’s co-director, and Ms. Farah Daccueil (Biophysics and Physiology Masters degree program) and Mr. Fred Grau (Masters of Science Teaching program) as laboratory instructors.
For more info, contact: dmoloney@notes.cc.sunysb.edu or follow the link: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ligase/Forstudents/BioPREP/BioPREP.html
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