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Small companies and workforce education programs like those in the ATE community are natural partners. Small companies need access to highly-trained personnel and expensive equipment. ATE programs need industry partners to help ensure that they're teaching marketable technical skills and to provide internships for students.

The NSF has supplemental funding available to support these kinds of partnerships between small businesses (with active SBIR funding) and community colleges. There are supplements available to support internships by college instructors (RET), student internships (REU, VRS), and phase IICC supplements to support partnerships.

The first presentation is from Dr. Ben... Read more

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Bio-Link On-Line News September 2014

Hello Bio-Linkers,

Mesa Community College (Mesa, AZ) is about to post a job opening for Dean of Career and Technical Education (CTE). Information about the position will be posted on Monday Sept. 22 at www.maricopa.edu

Please spread the word among your colleagues.

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The May 2014 edition of Bio-Link Connections is now available! Visit our newsletter page to download your copy and learn more about the wonderful things that Bio-Link programs are doing across the country and sharing with each other. Read more

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It was a great opportunity to hear from an NSF program officer and ask questions! Read more

With much of the continental U.S. suffering from a sub zero temperatures, a group of Bio-Link instructors traveled to sunny Puerto Rico for fun in the sun with warmth and genomics.

The Universidad del Turabo recently hosted the weeklong workshop Genomic Approaches in Biosciences, an NSF-funded project from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC). Dr. Jose Perez-Jimenez is the PI of a subaward from DNALC intended to increase the training of community college and secondary school teachers in the area of emerging genomics and bioinformatics.

The workshop was conducted both in Spanish and... Read more

Have you ever wanted to spend some time in biotech companies, calibrate your lab skills, and make sure that you're teaching students current information? You can do this and more in Winston-Salem!

Twelve community college instructors have the opportunity to spend a month in North Carolina working with folks from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North Carolina Central University, the BioNetwork's Pharmaceutical and Analytical Training Lab and Capstone Center, The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UNCG, the David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI), Commercialization at Wake... Read more

Kristine tells us about cloning African violets. The little plantlets are soooo cute!

Every time I think of a clone my immediate image is alien shaped pods with a ton of goo oozing out, and the mad scientist in the corner wearing a lab coat with a crazed look in their eye. And now, I know what it's like to be that mad scientist.

In the same class where I was taking care of NIH-3T3 cells, we did a cloning experiment on African Violets. This was the first experiment we did in the class, so it was... Read more