Program News

2009

  • April
    Judith Exler (Class of 2004) received the Chemistry Teachers' Club's Resnick Award.

    March
    Susan Vincent (Class of 2006) won the 2009 National Wetlands Award in Education and Outreach.

    February
    Tom Byrne's (Class of 2003) finished in first place (out of 30) in the Science Olympiad Lower Hudson Valley Tournament.  His New Rochelle HS team now advances to the state tournament. Good luck to Tom and his students!

    January
    30 current program participants and alumni attended the Partners in Science Conference.

 

2008

   November
Thanks to Peter Torpie (Class of 2001) for contributing 2 chemistry lesson plans. The Lesson Plan Repository now has 341 standards based lessons.<h2>

September


Congratulations to Anthony Finney (Class of 2008) and his wife Michelle on the birth of their daughter Emma Adela.

August


Lesson Plans developed at the conclusion of the 2008 program have been added to the Lesson Plan Repository 339 standards-based lessons are now available.

July

  • 26 New York area participants and 2 Singapore science teachers participated in the program's 19th summer. Alex Romero and  Rachel Lytle (both Class of 2007) visited Singapore schools, and Leslie Glinoga and Jeana Marinelli (both Class of 2007) worked in Australian research labs

May

  • Nancy Lee and Michelle Seeley (both Class of 2006) received the Siemens Science Teacher Initiative Award.

March

  • Leslie Glinoga and Rachel Lytle (both Class of 2007) will present their research projects at the RET Poster Session of the 2008 NSTA National Conference in Boston (3/27 @ 4:30).
  • Thomas Cork (Class of 2008) will receive the Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award for New Teachers at the 2008 National NSTA Conference in Boston (3/28 @ 6:00).

January

2007

November

August

July

  • Three Singapore science teachers and two Summer Research Program teachers (Kate Callaghan and Nancy Lee) participated in the program's 4th Singapore Science Teacher Exchange.

March

  • Columbia University & the Summer Research Program hosted the New York State Science & Engineering Fair (NYSSEF).

February

January

2006

July

  • Lesia Kaszczak and Uzma Shah (Class of 2004) worked for five weeks in a microbiology lab at Mahidol University (Thailand) as part of the Summer Research Program's International Research Program.

June

January

2005

August

  • Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D., Program Director, received the 8th Annual American Society for Cell Biology Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education.  Photo of presentation

September

  • Allison Granberry, Program Participant (Class of 2005) received an award for Dedication of Service (combined for time in the Peace Corps and NYC science teacher). Award presented by Caroline Kennedy    Photo of presentation

2004

November

  • The Singapore Ministry of Education, in partnership with A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), has launched the Local Attachment Programme for Science Teachers, a teacher research program modeled after Columbia's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers.

July

  • Allison Granberry, Program Participant (Class of 2005) received an award for Dedication of Service (combined for time in the Peace Corps and NYC science teacher). Award presented by Caroline Kennedy    Photo of presentation

June

  • Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D. received the 2004 Westy Award for being an outstanding citizen of the West Side of Manhattan.

2003

October

  • Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D., Founder and Director of the Summer Research Program, received the NYC Mayor's Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.

  • The award was bestowed upon Dr. Silverstein for his work with the Summer Research Program.  Ceremony photos | Press Release