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Engaging Community College Students with Museum Research

Closing the gap facing community college transfer students in accessing research opportunities

Cornell students who transfer from community colleges have fewer STEM research experiences than traditional students do. This pilot project explores a potential solution to help close this gap all while including students in an NSF–funded project to produce CT scans of 20,000 vertebrate specimen from museums across the country. The project team seeks to address community college students’ lack of individually mentored research experiences in their freshman and sophomore years, making the transfer students less attractive to laboratories looking for undergraduates. Additionally, the team seeks to build peer-to-peer networks to help students negotiate the process of accessing research opportunities.

Grant category: Other

Topic: Education

The Team

  • Casey Dillman

    Cornell Museum of Vertebrates

  • Malvika Talwar, independent consultant
  • Community partner:  Tompkins Cortland Community College

Engaged Opportunity Grants

Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.

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