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Education & Training

The Center sponsors education and training opportunities that benefit a wide range of customers. These include:

  • Summer Internship Placement: We subsidize summer internships for Cornell students to work in small biotechnology-related New York companies. For information on how to apply, for students or companies, see the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program
  • High School Equipment Lending Library: In collaboration with the Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers, state-of-the-art science laboratory kits and advanced instrumentation are made available to elementary and high school students. In 2006, the Equipment Lending Library served 6934 K-12 students and 448 teachers. See CIBT ( http://cibt.bio.cornell.edu)
  • Support for the Presidential Life Science Fellowship awardees.
  • On-Site Workshops: Hands-on training programs are designed to give exposure to DNA manipulation, technical instrumentation, and new techniques in biotechnology.
  • Multidisciplinary Graduate Education Traineeship in Sustainable Agriculturally-Based Bio-Industries Funded by the USDA. See MGET (http://www.sabbic.cornell.edu)
  • Seminars:

      Life Sciences Advanced Technology Seminar Series-- See the Cornell University Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center (CLC) website (http://cores.lifesciences.cornell.edu)

      Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship Seminar Series-- See the events tab at the top of this webpage for these monthly seminars, videocast from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, linking would-be and seasoned entrepreneurs across upstate New York.