Click picture to enlarge Juan Alicea (pictured) presented his research on "Conformationally-defined self-assembly: multi-metal, multi-zone, crystalline systems" with Dr. Seidel and fellow Chemistry major Joseph Campanelli at the 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego from March 13-17, 2005. Juan is a recipient of the Robert Noyce Scholarship funded by the National Science Foundation. In Summer 2005 Juan received additional NSF funding to conduct research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the PST program. Joseph Campanelli presented a second project on "A unique, self-assembled, zonal polymer system based on zinc(II), copper(II), and an organic backbone" with Dr. Seidel and NSF Robert Noyce Scholar Russell Ainbinder at the 39th National Organic Chemistry Symposium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City from June 12-16, 2005. Joe Campanelli is pursuing a masters degree in Chemistry at St. John's University as of Fall 2005. Russ Ainbinder graduated in May 2005 with a B.A. in Earth Science and a Chemistry minor, and is pursuing the M.S. in Secondary Education at Dowling.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the NSF Robert Noyce Scholarship Program, has awarded Dowling College a four-year grant totaling an estimated $500,000, which will help fund the College’s effort to train science and math teachers to teach in the high need districts where they are needed most.

The NSF grant provides $10,000 per year for 15 junior and senior undergraduate science and math majors in Dowling’s teacher training program. In addition, $10,000 awards are available for 13 “career changers”, individuals with undergraduate math, computer science or science degrees who pursue their teacher certification at Dowling on the graduate level. Recipients will obtain New York State teacher certification in one or more areas of math or science and are required to complete two years of teaching in a high need school district for each year of scholarship or stipend.

To be eligible for a Noyce Scholarship, named after Intel founder Robert Noyce, a candidate must be a United States citizen, national, or permanent resident alien and must be majoring or degreed in mathematics or science and pursue their New York State Teacher Certification. To apply for a scholarship, interested candidates should contact Dowling College’s Office of Enrollment Services at 631-244-3303.

It is estimated that the nation’s schools will need to hire 2.2 million teachers, including 240,000 middle and high school mathematics and science teachers in the next decade due to projected enrollment increases, anticipated retirements, and the attrition of new teachers.

This NSF grant follows a $400,000 appropriation from the U.S. Government provided to Dowling College in April to establish the Center for Minority Teacher Development and Training At Dowling College. The Center will be one of only a few in the nation dedicated exclusively to attracting minority students from disadvantaged circumstances to become teachers.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0335799.

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