Summer 2005 NIH-Bridges Faculty and Students

nih / bridges program
Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY) is unlike many institutions of higher education in the U.S. because it has an outstanding undergraduate program in the Natural Sciences that serves a high percentage of minority students (32.8%) and successfully places them in Master's and Ph.D. programs or the workforce. It also maintains strong partnerships with other local colleges and universities that have excellent science programs as well as with the surrounding corporate community.

Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY) in collaboration with Westchester Community College (WCC), Dutchess Community College (DCC), Orange County Community College (OCCC), the American Health Foundation/ Westchester Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Sullivan County, and funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree Program for underrepresented minority students that will enable them to attain careers or advanced degrees in biomedical research.

Click for more information on program objectives, what the program consists of, and qualifications for admission to the program.

What students say . . . Bridges students share their thoughts about what the program has meant for them.

current program
Status of current students: What have they been doing since joining the program?

Presentations from summer research session (June 2005): Bridges students do research each summer on a wide variety of topics, working one-on-one with Purchase College faculty.

HOW TO APPLY
Click for an application form that you can print out and mail in, or submit in person at your community college campus.