Lilly will be investing $15 million in Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, IN, to complement the record-breaking total commitment of $3.7 billion (and 700 jobs) it has made in pharmaceutical manufacturing in the area. The company will fund up to 1,000 scholarships over the next 5 years for individuals interested ...
Last year the Micro Nano Technology Education Center kicked off a new era in the world of technician education. They created a new journal. The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (JATE ) provides a place for community college faculty, students, and others, to share their findings from working on grants ...
There are several funding opportunities for colleges with an interest in STEM education. We'll keep adding new resources to the top of this page as they appear. Mar 2023 Elizabeth Stewart here, adding to Sandra's list of resources. I had the good fortune to be able to join the March ...
Innerbody Research is an online home health and wellness guide. I do not know enough about their other offerings (telehealth, online therapy, testing, products, or supplements) to comment on or endorse them, but I did have a good time browsing through their Innerbody Explorer--Anatomy offering. This resource divides the human ...
Podcasts can dive deeply into one field or jump around between many fields, and/or help highlight the intersections and contradictions between domains of interest. In this series of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) podcasts, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum takes a look at how medicine and healthcare interacts with patients-- the ...
Can projects involving our best friends of the four-footed canine variety help to "sniff out" future biotech technicians? What role do dogs play in biotech training at Southeast Community College (SCC) in Nebraska? Well, before I can answer that I need to give some background. As detailed in Madeline Patton's ...
Have you ever wanted to venture into one of the last frontiers of Earth, the Polar regions? Polar STEAM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, integrates and enhances two long-standing National Science Foundation (NSF) programs: the Polar Educators program and the Antarctic Artists and Writers program and ...
Dual Credit ACC LASA Biotechnology BITC 2486 students and their instructor Adjunct Professor Joseph Oleniczak traveled to Tokyo, Japan February 24 – March 3, 2023 for the Sakura Science Exchange Program from the Japan Science and Technology Agency. For this program, students designed and conducted a research project aimed at ...
The availability of online resources has boomed in recent years, spurred on by the remote working surge during the pandemic. Some topics are more easily adapted to online than other topics, and lab work can be particularly tricky. That is why I approached the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research (NIBRT) ...
I recently finished updating one of InnovATEBIO’s Courses-in-a-Box, Basic Laboratory Methods in a Regulated Environment. This course introduces students to fundamental laboratory methods that preprofessional biotechnologists must master. Over the years, my colleagues and I have tried to identify the most basic concepts and skills that our students require to ...
Please note: this article was written by Susana El Souki El Assal, and originally appeared in the Valencia Voice. This is cross-posted with permission from the Valencia Voice. On January 25, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences Lab Technician and Valencia College Biotechnology Lab Sciences alumni James Velazquez presented at Valencia ...
AACC is pleased to announce that applications will open for the 2023 Community College Innovation Challenge on January 17, 2023, with a submission deadline of March 30, 2023. To learn more and to apply, please visit www.aaccinnovationchallenge.com or contact ccic@aacc.nche.edu. The CCIC is led by the American Association of Community ...
Please note: this article and images were written and contributed by Misty Bouse, College Advancement Program Specialist, Portland Community College, Portland, OR. Bioscience Technology students on Portland Community College’s Rock Creek Campus in Washington County are examples of the scientists who will better Oregon’s future. These future bioscience graduates are ...
Valencia College held their first Biotechnology Research Symposium in November with 17 students, faculty, staff, and industry participating. Their ATE grant, BioSpark, is providing opportunities like this for students to showcase their work and network with industry partners. Valencia student Oscar Camargo presented his internship work with Annette Khaled from ...
Wow, there is a lot going on with applications of Artificial Intelligence to text. Will it make human writers obsolete? Will students use it to cheat? Can it help scientists understand the onslaught of papers we see everyday? The answers to those questions, in my opinion at least, are no ...
A recent Forbes article found that 25 U.S. states allow community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees---as long as they met a concrete need and did not compete with the state 4 -year colleges. This alternative avenue to a 4-year degree is helping community colleges play a key role in meeting ...
Please note: this article was written by Hannah McClellan, EdNC.org Photo credits: Hannah McClellan. This article first appeared in EdNC. Juan Galindo first learned about Johnston Community College’s (JCC) BioWork certificate program during a conversation with his bank teller. Her son, in his mid-thirties, wanted to change careers, the teller ...
Recently, the Tissue Culture Class from Palm Beach State College went on an amazing field trip to the FAU Pine Jog Environmental Education Center Orchid lab. A special thank you to our Biotech Program Alumni, Bethany Simpson and Bennett Niemi, who both work at the lab and were fantastic hosts ...
MassBay Community College, MA, received a $750,000 grant this October from the Baker-Polito Administration and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). These funds will help the college: - Create a new Center for Biomanufacturing Education and Workforce Training (CBEWT) - Develop a biomanufacturing certificate degree - Develop new courses relating to ...
