ED11C-0863
A Year-Long Research Experience Program in Solar and Atmospheric Physics at the Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Monday, 14 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
M. Chantale Damas, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, United States, Tak D Cheung, QCC, Bayside, NY, United States, Chigomyezo Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, Ahmed Mohamed, CUNY City College of New York, Electrical Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Delores J Knipp, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Leon P Johnson, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Yihua Zheng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Timothy Paglione, CUNY York College, Jamaica, NY, United States and Space Weather Education Group
Abstract:
The Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), a Hispanic and minority-serving institution, is the recipient of a 2-year NSF EAGER (Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to design and implement a high-impact practice integrated research and education program in solar and atmospheric physics. Through a strong collaboration with CUNY/City College of New York and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC), the project engages underrepresented community college students in geosciences-related STEM fields through a year-long research experience with two components: 1) during the academic year, students are enrolled in a course-based introductory research (CURE) where they conduct research on real-world problems; and 2) during the summer, students are placed in research internships at partner institutions. We will present the results of the first year-long research experience, including successes and challenges.
