Serving Industry Through Education: Student Mentoring and Research Techniques

Friday, 13 February 2015: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Room LL21F (San Jose Convention Center)
Virginia Balke,Delaware Technical and Community College, Newark, DE
SITE SMART is a project at Delaware Technical & Community College that aims to increase students’ scientific and professional skills, to better prepare them for transfer to a four-year institution or for entering the workforce. The main goal of year one was to increase student engagement and retention by developing a sustainable undergraduate research program in the Biology and Chemistry Department.