College Mini-Semester Students Explore Science
January 29, 2004
Upton, NY - Twenty-one college students explored environmental science and technology and learned about the cutting-edge research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory in an intensive one-week program during their winter break, January 12-16.
Funded by DOE's Office of Science as a means of developing the nation's workforce of teachers and scientists, the mini-semester program aims to ignite student interest in science and technology. Participants are also encouraged to apply for academic semester or summer internships at Brookhaven Lab. Selection of students is based on their grades and interest, although strong emphasis also is placed on underrepresented ethnic and gender diversity.
The mini-semester students in the photo are accompanied by Brookhaven physicist Peter Wanderer (back, left), who told them about both superconducting and conventional magnets built by the Laboratory for particle accelerators around the world, including Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Brookhaven's Noel Blackburn (back, right) organized and managed the mini-semester program.
Other highlights of the students' visit included lectures and discussions on environmental science and technology and tours of several of the Laboratory's premiere research facilities. All of the participating students completed a research project.
Brookhaven has been offering the college mini-semester program to students selected from schools affiliated through partnerships with the Laboratory since 1976. The schools participating in the 2004 mini-semester program were: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, Community College of Rhode Island, Essex County College, Hostos Community College, Housatonic Community College, State University of New York at Binghamton, Tidewater Community College, Stony Brook University, and Norfolk State University.
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