Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity
Christina Jones, ReBUILDetroit scholar from the University of Detroit Mercy majoring in biology, will be conducting her summer research with Dr. Vance Berger in the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Recently, Jones spent two-days visiting the NIH campus as part of the Introduction to Read More …
Title of Research Project: I am working on two projects; emotional intelligence and test anxiety with nursing students Research Description: Aromatherapy has been shown to be an option for reducing test anxiety in college students. Aromatherapy can be beneficial for the health and education of college students and may be linked to positive physiological effects Read More …
ReBUILDetroit scholars actively engage in authentic, hands-on research beginning in their first semester at university. As part of the research experience, scholars present their research to their colleagues and are encouraged to share their research at regional and national conferences. Two ReBUILDetroit scholars, Vanessa Lee and Relicious Eboh, from the University of Detroit Mercy attended Read More …
Nearly four years ago, the ReBUILDetroit consortium consisting of the University of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State University received a $21.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform undergraduate education. More than 120 scholars are actively pursuing their undergraduate degrees in biomedical fields. We asked scholars to tell us what ReBUILDetroit Read More …
The ReBUILDetroit welcomes Dr. Erin Dolan as an external member of the ReBUILDetroit Steering Committee. Dolan is a Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education at the University of Georgia. As a graduate student in Neuroscience at University of California San Francisco, she volunteered extensively in K-12 Read More …
Bianca Jones, biochemistry major at University of Detroit Mercy, spent her ReBUILDetroit summer research experience as part of an international, interdisciplinary team focusing on the global challenges of health research at Aarhus University in Denmark. Jones took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with researchers from Michigan Technological University which looked at biosensor Read More …
A recent article about the ReBUILDetroit experience is featured on the BMC Proceedings homepage. The publication, “A research-based inter-institutional collaboration to diversity the biomedical workforce: ReBUILDetroit,” by co-authors Jeanne Andreoli, Andrew Feig, Steven Chang, Sally Welch, Ambika Mathur and Gary Kuleck appears in the BMC Proceedings, 2017, 11 (Suppl 12):23. “We are extremely excited about Read More …
Associate professors of Biology, Dr. Stephanie Conant and Dr. Jacob Kagey along with School of Dentistry assistant professor Dr. Joshua Thomson are among the co-authors of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The article, An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC): Impact of the Read More …
Inclusion of Grads and Post-Docs in Student Training Programs subject of NIH Diversity Program Consortium annual conference. A key aspect of the ReBUILDetroit Program is the formation of dynamic learning communities which span across the three Consortium institutions, disciplines, and faculty ranks. ReBUILDetroit participants undergraduate ReBUILDetroit Scholars, Graduate Learning Community Advisors (GLCAs), postdoctoral teaching fellows Read More …
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