The third cohort of the Stony Brook Simons STEM Scholars Program spent July 31 in New York City at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute.
The visit was part of the six-week Summer Bridge Program, designed to prepare the incoming first-year science, technology, engineering and math students for the next four years of their academic career.
Throughout the day, the group of 42 scholars — known as S3 — heard from researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute from different fields, including neuroscience, computational biology, computational astrophysics and computational quantum physics. They had lunch with the first and second cohort interns from the New York Structural Biology Center and took a tour of the Centers for Computational Biology and Mathematics.
Simons Foundation President David Spergel, PhD, gave the opening remarks, where he spoke about the work being done at the Simons Foundation, the importance of math and science and the evolution of the Simons STEM Scholars Program.
“At the Simons Foundation, we believe that great science can transform our understanding of everything. Our goal is to support scientists, and the reason we are supporting this program is that we think you are part of the future of science,” said Spergel. “Stony Brook will produce some great scientists, and we wanted to help build this program to give you the opportunities to be one of them.”
Read the full story by Christine McGrath at SB Matters.
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