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An inspiring, engaging, mentored research experience for Rocky Mountain Region high school and community college STEM teachers in bioengineering, bioimaging, and health informatics

The Rocky Mountain Summer Research Education Experience is a paid professional development opportunity for creative and curious high school and community college teachers looking to expand their skills as a STEM teacher.

The RMSREE is committed to training a diverse group of teachers through in person, mentored, laboratory research experiences. Diversity is central to CU Denver achieving its mission to be a "diverse teaching and learning community that creates, discovers, and applies knowledge to improve the health and well-being of Colorado and the world."

The RMSREE program is centered around an 8 week (summer) research experience in order to:

  • allow participants to experience the authentic fulfillment of scientific discovery
  • increase their STEM proficiency and confidence
  • translate their experience into enhanced STEM education in their own classrooms
  • enhance the STEM pipeline for students through a stronger connection between CU Denver and area high schools and community colleges

The yearly application window opens in September for the following summer.

NEW for the Summer 2024 cohort: we will be able to offer some support towards on-campus housing for our participants!

Applications for Summer 2024 RMSREE are now being accepted!

For full consideration, please complete your application by December 8, 2023.  Window extended an additional week!

We are looking forward to working with our next cohort of STEM teachers!

 

Program co-Directors: Scott Reed and Doris Kimbrough

2022 participant plating cells for quantification
3d printed stackable model of a planet
2021 participant places a sample into the high field NMR spectrometer
2022 participant holding a child-sized articulated prosthetic hand
2021 participant at a fluorescence microscope
Petri diish quantifying cells producing a green fluorescent protein
Small microscope used for real time motion imaging of a mouse brain with participant finger nail for scale
2021 participant and instructor examining a sample
A chemical reaction in a round bottom flask.
Two scientists performing medical imaging experiments
Close up view of the stage of a microscope
Female scientist by an NMR instrument

Bio focus

laser set up 1
Microscope slide close up
laser set up 2
mouse with a head microscope for live imaging

Research Focus

Research in the RMSREE program focuses on:

Bioimaging: The development of innovative biomedical imaging technologies to transform our understanding of biological and disease processes for improving diagnostics, image-guided therapies, and human health.

Bioengineering: The development and demonstration of modular platform technologies and engineering approaches to manipulate and interface with biology to enable a new paradigm of biomedical intervention for human health.

Health Informatics: The development of science and technology for processing and evaluating complex biomedical information in order to develop solutions to real-world healthcare problems.