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BioLink Summer Fellows Forum

San Francisco – June 2010

Entrepreneurship and Soft Skills in STEM Education

The Virtual Enterprise ModelEdgar E. Troudt, co-Principal Investigator DUE-0802365

<ETroudt@kbcc.cuny.edu>

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CUNY• Third-Largest Public

University System

• Nation’s Largest Urban University

• 480,000 Students (46% of New York’s College population)

• 23 Institutions

• 11 Senior Colleges

• 6 Community Colleges

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ASRC• 200,000 sqft. lab space

• Photonics

• Nanotechnology

• Water and Environmental Sensing

• Structural Biology

• Neuroscience

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NCC• Midtown Manhattan

• Health Information Technology

• Surgical Technology

• Environmental Technology

• Energy Services Mgmt.

• GIS

• Supply Chain Mgmt.

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