{"id":39043,"date":"2016-05-09T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=39043"},"modified":"2016-05-09T23:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T23:38:49","slug":"acc-awarded-national-science-grant-to-develop-innovative-research-experience-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/09\/acc-awarded-national-science-grant-to-develop-innovative-research-experience-course\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC awarded national science grant to develop innovative research experience course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation awarded Austin Community College (ACC) $300,000 to develop a unique two-year research experience course for students in STEM-related fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditionally, undergraduate research has been limited to students in their junior or senior years,\u201d says Kusali Gamage, ACC adjunct geology professor. \u201cProviding our students with hands-on learning opportunities in their first years sets them up for greater success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project, GP-EXTRA: Engaging and Retaining Students in the Geosciences at Two-Year Colleges, is open to both science and non-science majors and features two programs: a summer undergraduate research experience course and a field activity that allows propagation of research into existing introductory geology courses at ACC.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Course (SUREC), students will learn about geology of the ocean crust through directed undergraduate research. The 2-credit course will be open to second-year students interested in STEM disciplines. Students will participate in research activities for 12 weeks at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf Coast Repository (GCR) field activity will expose students to scientific research and career opportunities available in geosciences. Students enrolled in Introduction to Oceanography (GEOL 1445) and a selected section of Natural Hazards &amp; Disasters (GEOL 1301) courses are eligible to participate. The field activity, set to begin spring 2017, will take place at the Texas A&amp;M University GCR.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for SUREC will be accepted in fall 2016. For more information on the program and how to apply, contact Gamage at <u><a href=\"mailto:kgamage@austincc.edu\">kgamage@austincc.edu<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Science Foundation awarded Austin Community College (ACC) $300,000 to develop a unique two-year research experience course for students in STEM-related fields. \u201cTraditionally, undergraduate research has been limited to students in their junior or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/05\/09\/acc-awarded-national-science-grant-to-develop-innovative-research-experience-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":39044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,19],"tags":[971,170,578,972],"class_list":["post-39043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-geosciences","tag-grant","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}