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C-SURP - The CUNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program  provides students with 10 weeks of hands-on research experience in a CUNY laboratory.  Students are matched with a faculty mentor and research team based on their expressed interests.  To learn more about the program or to apply, please click HERE

The Systems Biology Center New York (SBCNY) Undergraduate Research Program offers summer research fellowships to CUNY undergraduates who are planning to pursue PhD or MD/PhD degree programs after graduation and who are interested in incorporating systems biology approaches into the research that they pursue.  This 10-week research-intensive training program is based out of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and provides students with a $4,000 stipend.  Applications are due March 1, 2012.

Further details about the program  HERE

John Jay Prof's Amazonian Adventure

Anthony Carpi, a professor of environmental toxicology at John Jay College, is currently on sabbatical conducting research into soil mercury emissions in the Brazilian Amazon. He and his family moved to Campinas in early August. He has been blogging his experiences and will be writing regularly about his fieldwork at The Mercurial Scientist .

You can find more stories from the Research Office on our newswire HERE