Caitlin Lottie and Nick Mensah spent a summer turning a field on the west side of Chicago into a swath of native prairie. Mensah is now studying molecular biology and biochemistry.The next time someone attempts to devalue going to a community college this is the article you show them!
Lynika Strozier experimented on yeast strands and is now majoring in biology.
The three students, all once enrolled in the City Colleges of Chicago, are now at four-year institutions thanks in part to the research they did at Truman and Wright colleges.
They are among dozens of city colleges students are getting a unique chance to do research most other college students can only dream of.
The program is the Undergraduate Research Collaborative, also known as URC, funded by a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The city colleges are the only community colleges in the nation to take the lead on a project; others elsewhere work as partners with larger four-year universities.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
City colleges students dive into scientific research
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