- Virtual panel discussions: Y.E.S. volunteers video chat with students to discuss topics including education, science/health careers, hot-topics in science, and life as a scientist. Discussions are interactive and questions are encouraged.
- School visits (postponed): Invite Y.E.S. volunteers to speak to students at your school!
- Experiment days (postponed): Have Y.E.S. come to your classroom or club to conduct a hands-on experiment with students!
- Campus visits (postponed): Field trips for your high school students. See our labs, speak with students and professors, and participate in hands-on activities.
- Internships (postponed): Are you a high school student looking for an internship? Would you like to conduct your senior thesis in a UConn Health Laboratory? Contact Y.E.S., and we will help connect you with a lab host. (16 years or older).
Y.E.S. @ UConn Health Campus, Farmington, CT
Expertise in Biomedical Science
Research topics: Genetics, Skeletal Biology, Systems Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Biophysics, Neuroscience
Outreach examples:
- Learn to pipette
- Extract DNA from fruit or cheek cells
- Bioinformatics of cancer genes (computational)
- UConn Health campus visit- meet and talk with graduate, medical and dental students, tour the hospital
Y.E.S. @ Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT
Expertise in Marine Science
Outreach examples:
- Plankton towns
- Examining the ocean under a microscope
- Dissolving CO2 into water - how does the ocean cope?
- Does river water float on ocean water?