The BCRL’s mentoring program also involves bringing area college students to the lab, usually for about three to six months, to work on one of the many research projects underway. These students do a brief rotation through the different parts of the laboratory, and are then trained by one of our scientists in the techniques relevant to the project they will be working on. These college interns become a true part of the research process and often make significant contributions to the research performed in the BCRL. In the last week of their internships they present their data to the group. It is expected that by this time they will have gained a firm grasp on the concepts that root the BCRL’s work in the scientific community, and be able to clearly demonstrate the arc of the experimental process.
Andrea M. Carpenter
Jacqueline N. Talarchek
It is our aim that these students leave the internship program with a deeper understanding of what it means to be a working researcher, and better informed and inspired about the shape of their future.
For the fall and winter of 2008 two college students from Holy Family University have been selected to participate in this program. Andrea M. Carpenter and Jacqueline N. Talarchek will work in the role of hCG peptides in human breast epithelial cells in vitro under the direction of Dr. Irma H. Russo and Dr. Ricardo Lopez.