Pathways to science for K-12 and college students

Since 2016, Columbia's Zuckerman Institute has partnered with BioBus, a NYC-based science education nonprofit. BioBus community scientists welcome students of all ages aboard mobile labs, scientific labs on buses that visit schools across NYC and in the Boston area. At the Education Lab, located in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center at 609 W 129th St., BioBus offers field trips, afterschool, weekend, and paid internship programs. With BioBus, students connect with science and access pathways for ongoing education and careers. 
 

BioBus mobile and community labs are immersive laboratory environments where scientists join students and the general public for hands-on scientific exploration using research microscopes. This new kind of lab space is accessible and unintimidating, facilitating scientific engagement among populations historically underrepresented in science professions. 
 

BioBus is a scientific ambassador facilitating connections between scientists at Columbia and our neighbors BioBus community scientists spend more than a hundred days a year visiting local schools such as PS 125 and the Urban Assembly Institute for New Technologies, work with volunteers from the Zuckerman Institute to engage local students in current research, and reach tens of thousands of students each year. BioBus offers curricula on many topics relevant to local students including urban ecology, the local climate, biology, and, with help from Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, brain science and sensory systems. To learn more, please visit biobus.org.