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Summer Science Scholars Program

Summer Science 2019

We will not be processing applications for the summer of 2025; however, many faculty are accepting students. If you are interested in working in a specific lab at the BNI for the summer of 2025, we recommend that you contact the PI of that lab directly.

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September 21, 2022
Education Fuels Hope
Each summer the Burke Neurological Institute (BNI) welcomes promising undergraduate and high school students with bright futures in the field of neuroscience to its campus. Drs. Dianna E. Willis and Vibhu Sahni, co-directors of the BNI Education Program, are engaging these young neuroscientists and hoping to instill in them a love of scientific enquiry by establishing immersive on campus and remote educational programs for high school and college students.
2022 Scientific Poster Session
Cho Lab / Friel Lab / Gibson Lab / Hollis Lab / Prusky Lab / Ratan Lab / Sahni Lab / Yoshida Lab
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August 13, 2019
Summer Scholars and Participants Shine Bright at the Summer Science Poster Session 2019

Training the next generation of young talented scientists is a high priority at the Burke Neurological Institute.

Summer Class of 2019 group photo
Cho Lab / Friel Lab / Hollis Lab / Ratan Lab
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September 6, 2018
Hope is Fueled by Tomorrow’s Future Talent

Training the next generation of young talented scientists is a high priority at the Burke Neurological Institute.

Summer Student Scholars Class of 2018
Friel Lab / Gibson Lab / Hollis Lab / Prusky Lab / Ratan Lab / Willis Lab
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August 11, 2017
SUMMER SCIENCE SCHOLARS OF 2017: Present Research Projects at the Annual Poster Session

Each summer from June to August, Burke Medical Research Institute mentors the next generation of research scientists through the Summer Science Research Program.

Summer Science Scholars of 2017
Friel Lab / Gibson Lab / Ratan Lab / Willis Lab
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August 15, 2016
2016 Summer Science Scholars Present Projects at Annual Poster Session

Each summer from June to August, Burke Medical Research Institute mentors the next generation of research scientists through the Summer Student Research Program.

Summer Science 2016
Cho Lab / Friel Lab / Willis Lab
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August 10, 2015
2015 Summer Science Scholars Present Research Projects at Annual Poster Session

Each summer from June to August, Burke Medical Research Institute mentors the next generation of research scientists through the Summer Student Research Program.

2015 Summer Science Scholars

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Faculty Mentors

Sunghee Cho, Ph.D.Kathleen M. Friel, Ph.D.Gary E. Gibson, Ph.D.Edmund R. Hollis II, Ph.D.James H. Marshel, Ph.D.Glen Prusky, Ph.D.Rajiv R. Ratan, M.D., Ph.D.Vibhu Sahni, Ph.D.Katherine E. Travis, Ph.D.Dianna E. Willis, Ph.D.Yutaka Yoshida, Ph.D.

Summer Science Scholars

Class of 2022

Sara Albert
Cornell University
Nova Chen
Brown University
Grace Hansen
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sophia Kaplan
Amherst College
Aymane Lachhab
College of Wooster
Rita Lin
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
Thomas Montgomery
Colby College
Samantha Vleck
College of the Holy Cross
Abraham Zuraw
Amherst College

Class of 2019

Reina Ashizawa
Tufts University
Lisa Brontesi
Boston University
Lydia Currie
University of Rochester
Jeromy DiGiacomo
Williams College
Mohamed El-Abtah
Harvard
Raghavee Neupane
Miami University
Dillon Noone
Wesleyan University
Anya Wang
University of Chicago 

Class of 2018

Amanda Bache
University of Buffalo
Emma Burns
Duke University
Bissem Gill
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Meenu Johnkutty
Stony Brook Univeristy
Joseph Lee
University of Notre Dame
Amith Punyala
Cornell University
Marwa Soliman
Manhattanville College
Regan Steed
Columbia University
Brittany Zaita
Fordham University 

Class of 2017

Michael Ainsworth
Johns Hopkins University
Richard Chao
Fordham University
Antonella D’Ascanio
Boston College
Thomas Gagliardi
Union College
Samantha Gold
University of Pennsylvania
Wali Hairan
Connecticut College
Larissa Heron
Hunter College
Basil Mundackal
Siena College
Matthew Ponticiello
SUNY Binghamton 
Mythili Pulavarthi
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alessandra Sauro
University of Rochester
Andrew Wallace-Jackson
Carelton College

Class of 2016

Amanda Bernstein
The City College of New York
Maria Lopez Cavestany
Stevens Institute of Technology
Bryan Chatterton
University of Connecticut
Toby Kashket
University of Rochester
Polin Petkova
Manhattanville College
Samuel Potash
Tulane University
Sydney Sherman
University of Texas at Dallas
Awarded First Place
Sarah Sylla
Wesleyan University

Class of 2015

Garren Angacian
John Hopkins University
Aaron Cherian
University of Maryland
Chris Costa
Fordham University
Sheryl Johnson
St. Bonaventure University
Max Levinson
Cornell University
Tanner Love
Williams College
Jessica Ochiogrosso
University of Rochester
Natcha Rummaneethorn
Manhattanville College
Awarded First Place
Kathleen Samuelson
Brown University
Joshua Santos
SUNY Purchase
Diana Shao
Fordham University

Class of 2014

Alexandra Agins
Fordham University
Jessica Berkowe
SUNY Purchase
Jackie Bucci
College of Charleston
Matthew Burrow
Western Connecticut State University
Loren Eustaquio
SUNY Purchase
Sarah Groover
Rogers State University
William Halimou
Oberlin University
Michael Mazzola
Cornell University
Awarded First Place
Briana Sabot
University of Rhode Island