Abstract: Queensborough Community College (QCC) has been a leader in implementing undergraduate in research for years. Undergraduate research (UR) has become part of the culture at the college as it is considered a high impact educational practice. UR at QCC involves hundreds of students every year including some students from other community colleges. Research opportunities abound as all departments participate in undergraduate research. There are projects embedded in classes (approx. 60%) and individual projects (approx. 40%) with most of the independent projects funded. Funding comes from CUNY-wide grant programs, state sources, and federal sources such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, NSF, NIH, and NASA.

QCC: An Undergraduate Research Success Story David Lieberman, Maria Mercedes Franco, CUNY/Queensborough Community College, Bayside NY 11364

Undergraduate Research Day Queensborough Community College, CUNY

December 7, 2018

80 poster presentations

Research Program Number of Students

CUNY I-Corps: STEM TIES – Tools for Innovation & Entrepreneurial

Success

14

CUNY Research Scholars Program (CRSP)

32

NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate 16

AREM (Authentic Research in Microbiology)

14

QCC Space Weather Research Group - NSF EAGER & NASA

MC3I SOLAR PREP

6

Kupferberg Holocaust Center 8

Queensborough’s Summer Intensive Research Program

(SIRP) 5

QCC NSF-REU in Physics and Astronomy

8

QCC NSF S-STEM Scholars Program In Smart Energy

3

Total Projects: 432 159 Independent (37%),

273 embedded HIP (63%) 36% of all projects were program funded.

Independent Projects 159

37% Embedded as HIP 273

63%

UR PROJECTS BY TYPE

Stand-Alone Research Courses/Independent Studies

Fall 2014 to Fall 2019

Faculty Mentors 21

Students 58

Research-in-the Classroom

Spring 2014 to Fall 2019

Mentors/Instructors 4

Courses 7

Students 292

CUNY RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2019-2020 COHORT

CRSP Highlights from 2018-2019

CRSP students made 118 presentations at local, regional and national conferences. Students won

9 awards for their presentations

Example of UR in one department: Mathematics and Computer Science

Levels of Participation QUEENSBOROUGH’S SUMMER INTENSIVE

RESEARCH PROGRAM (SIRP)

62% have used their SIIRP projects at a 4-year institution 12% used their SIRP projects to get employment or as part of their employment

Participants from 8 different community colleges 5 presentations at regional and national conferences

1 journal article 1 Jack Kent Cooke Scholar

BRIDGES TO THE BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM: RESEARCH INITIATIVE TO MAXIMIZE SCIENCE SKILLS (RIMS)

Since 2002, 88% of participants have transferred and 63% have graduated from BA/BS programs in science or biomedicine. Fifty students pursued postgraduate degrees. To date, 6 PhD, 2 MD, 3 PharmD and 23 Master’s degrees have been awarded to Bridges students

In the past five years, eighteen students were listed as co-authors on peer reviewed research publications. Students have received 22 national and 29 regional research awards.

QCC NSF S-STEM SCHOLARS PROGRAM IN SMART ENERGY

All students transferred to Binghamton University in fall 2018 and are pursuing their B.S. degrees in Chemistry. 3 National conference presentations