RISE Invitational

The RISE Invitation program targets undergraduate applicants. The primary goal is to improve the competitiveness of these students for more advanced RISE research activities. It is the hope of the RISE Invitational program that the student participants will be motivated to continue on in research and that they apply for participation in the RISE Intensive-Undergraduate program after completing the RISE Invitational. Note: Students applying to the RISE Intensive-Undergraduate program need not have participated in the RISE Invitational.

Students accepted in the program are awarded a stipend as follows:

Summer - $10/hr x 40hrs of work x 4 wks = $1600/student maximum
Academic Year - $10/h x 10hrs of work x 42 wks= $4200/student maximum

Below you will find a detailed table of dates and activities that comprise the RISE Invitational program.

RISE Invitation Summer Schedule

Two weeks in June (preliminary orientation meetings)
	Two meetings with coordinator by each participant; students receive instruction and guidance on preliminary assignments in preparation for the upcoming summer workshop activities; students complete pre-participation knowledge and skill assessment tools.
Four weeks in July (Weeks One – Four)
Time	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs
9 am – 12 pm	Content rich lectures/discussions in the general areas of neurobiology, cancer, enzyme kinetics, intermolecular forces, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, trigonometry, and probability and statistics.
12 – 1 pm	Lunch and 1X/week brown-bag lunch meeting with CPP research active professor
1 – 4 pm (M – TH)	Weeks One–Two: Laboratory experiments including introduction to microbial culturing and characterization, transfection of bacterial or mammalian cells, PCR procedures, enzyme assays, protein purification, light and fluorescent microscopy, and the basics of data analysis, including use of Excel as a statistical analysis tool. Weeks Three-Four: Group inquiry-based laboratory projects (two or more per group) using some of the research techniques learned during Weeks One and Two.
4 – 5 pm	Study Group	Small Group Activity and Discussions	Study Group	Small Group Activity and Discussions
Friday
9 am – 10 pm	Safety Workshops with RISE Intensive students (see 12D below) (Weeks 1-4)
10 – 3 pm	Work on Laboratory-Inquiry projects.
3 – 4 pm	Individual Participant Meetings with Invitation Coordinator
4 – 5 pm	Small Group Activity or Minority Speaker Research Seminar
5 – 6 pm	Informal group meeting with Seminar Speaker
RISE Invitation Academic Year Schedule
	Biweekly meetings with Coordinator Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters Fall Quarter and Winter Quarter: Bio 200 or Chem 200 (2 units/Quarter): “Using Critical Thinking to Solve Basic Scientific Questions” Attendance at Minority Speaker Research Seminars (3X/Quarter): Fall, Winter, Spring Quarters Spring Quarter: Independent Research project with student peer mentor and faculty researcher. Attendance at California State University Program for Education and Research Annual Symposium(Winter Quarter), CPP Annual Student Research Symposium (Winter Quarter), and RISE/HHMI/McNair Annual Student Research Symposium (Spring Quarter) Summer student research symposium (Summer quarter)