2022 Public Outreach Grants
Recipient
- Theodore Nelson (Undergraduate Student; Computer Science)
Description
- Columbia Space Initiative has partnered with the Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth organization to provide a five-week introductory aerospace education for underprivileged middle school students in New York City.
- Funds will support additional volunteers, supplies for hands-on projects, and technological support.
- Students will have the opportunity to visit Columbia University's campus to present their research activities.
Recipients
- Student organizers:
- Roi Ankori-Karlinsky (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Ayanna Butler (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Maya Dutta (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Erich Eberhard (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Amanda Johnston (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Pallavi Kache (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Rin Krichilsky (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Marie Lilly (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Aria Pereira (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Gabriel Rosenstein (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Jay Schoen (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
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Anubhav Vanamamalai (Graduate Student; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
- Faculty collaborators:
- Benjamin Bostick (Associate Research Professor; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
- Bob Newton (Senior Research Scientist; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
- Sara Kross (Lecturer; Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology)
Description
- Working with the Secondary School Field Research Program at Columbia University, this program will provide opportunities to learn about environmental issues through a community-based perspective.
- Local high school students from the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School will conduct fieldwork in Inwood Park guided by Columbia University graduate and undergraduate students.
- Both the high school and undergraduate students will receive financial support, making the program viable for students regardless of their economic situation.
- Read more via our interview with the grant recipients.