Hsu Lab TEAM Program
The Hsu Lab leads a NSF-funded (CAREER CHE-1942467) Transformative Educational And Mentoring (TEAM) outreach program to impact underrepresented communities at UT Austin, in the surrounding area and nationwide to:
- Enhance training and cultural exposure of UT Austin students through a non-traditional classroom environment
- Equip highly underrepresented students at universities with confidence and scientific foundation to become leaders of their communities in science and engineering locally and nationally
- Inspire those in underrepresented communities to pursue a career in science
STEM Girl Day
We are participating in STEM Girl Day this February. If you are interested in learning more about the interactive activity we will be utilizing during this event, check out the activity overview below:
Activity OverviewIf you are an educator or student interested in receiving a hands-on classroom/at-home activity, please request this hands-on activity box through the link below to explore and learn more about lipid metabolism:
Request Activity BoxBoxes requested to date: 18
Additional Opportunities
We are collaborating with The Leadership Alliance to build a First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program that provides important research opportunities for first year students from Minority Serving Institutions. In summer 2016, we had the pleasure of hosting Samuel Honore from Brooklyn College who worked on an independent research project involving lipid metabolism and signaling in inflammation.
We are also teaming up with the Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation to increase the number of underrepresented minority students earning baccalaureate degrees and pursuing careers in graduate school. In summer 2016, we had the wonderful opportunity to host Jocelyn Hernandez-Vega from Johnson C. Smith University who was able to gain her first research experience working on mammalian cell culture, recombinant protein production, and enzyme analysis.