November 2006
Congratulations to Principal Investigator Paul Marchese and co-P.I.’s Cheryl Bluestone, George Tremberger, Haishen Yao and Tak David Cheung for a new $1,050,310 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish "A Laser Academy for High School Science Teachers.”
Prof. Paul Marchese
This three-year grant will support the Physics Department’s efforts to build on the success of the Laser Academy for high school students. The new academy for teachers will increase opportunities to learn about, experience and use information technologies within the context of photonics, and help ameliorate the shortage of technology-qualified teachers in the New York City area.
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Queensborough is also part of new five-year $3.46 million collaborative grant with John Jay College, which was recently funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (Title V). This project will develop both colleges’ capacity to address cross-institutional needs in retention and graduation rates of Hispanic students in the sciences and among non-native English speaking students. Congratulations to Vice President Mark McColloch who worked with John Jay College to secure this new grant.
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Congratulations to Principal Investigator Patricia Schneider on her new $561,653 three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP). This funding will launch and support a program to recruit and provide under-represented minority students with research opportunities across the sciences as well as faculty mentoring.
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