AC2 Bio-Link Research Mentoring Workshop

The AC2 Research Mentoring Workshop will highlight strategies to embed research into class experiences within AC2 partner institutions and to foster a national mentoring network for broader implementation of undergraduate research. The focus of this workshop will include evidence-based teaching and learning, undergraduate research as a recruiting/retention/persistence tool, the challenges, and extraordinary student outcomes of implementing research in the undergraduate classrooms of two-year campuses. A benefit of research mentoring is that it enables two-year students to successfully compete with students from four-year schools at regional and national meetings. Finally, the PCAST 2012 report’s Actions to Achieve Recommendation 2 recommended that NSF should provide initial funding to replicate and scale-up scientific research and engineering design courses in the first two years of college.

Organizers

J. Robert Hatherill and Daisy Zhang

Schedule

Thursday April 20, 2017:  Arrival and dinner on your own.

Friday April 21, 2017

Before 9:00 AM Breakfast on your own

10:00 AM – 12:45 PM Opening Session: Student Research Day: Harvin Center (Retama Room, Second Floor)

10:00 AM- 11:00 PM   Keynote Address TBA

11:00 AM- 12:45 PM   Student Research Poster Session  (Lunch provided)

1 PM – 2:40 PM Organized Programs and Integrating Research at 2-year Colleges, Garcia Sciences Bldg. GS 109

• J. Robert Hatherill, Del Mar College: SEA-PHAGES / PARE / SWI, National Labs, Outcomes
• Bridgette Kirkpatrick SEA-PHAGES/PARE
• Daisy Zhang, Del Mar College: SEA-PHAGES, Del Mar’s Summer Internship Program
• Q&A

2:40 PM – 3:10 PM Coffee Break/Lab Tours (J. Robert Hatherill, Daisy Zhang)

3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Free Time

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner on your own

Saturday April 22, 2017: 

Before 8:30 AM: Breakfast on your own

9 AM – 10:20 AM Panel: Integrating Undergraduate Research at 2-Year Colleges

• Stephanie Randell, McLennan CC: Undergraduate Research at MCC: A Novel Approach
• TBA ACC: Undergraduate Research:  Pathways that Work for Students
• Danny Kainer, Lonestar College: Implementing Research into 2-year Colleges
• Q&A

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM – 11:40 AM Panel: continued

• Sandra Porter, Digital World Biology LLC, Bioinformatics as Undergraduate Research
• Jeff Turner/Brandy Reese, TAMUCC:  Research with Two-year School Students from a Four-year perspective
• Q&A

11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Closing Remarks and Final Discussion

• Moderator: TBA (Del Mar College)

12:30 PM Adjourn

Hotel:  We recommend the Holiday Inn in downtown Corpus Christi.

This event is funded by grants from the Advanced Technological Education program of the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation (AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center DUE 1501207 and REVISION DUE 1205059).The Discovery Research Conference at Del Mar College