Friday, April 11, 2025
1:00 – 5:00 pm
at Colorado State University Campus
This event is targeted at community college students.
Did you know that working in a lab is a great way to enrich your education, establish a strong team of mentors, get on-the-job training, and often get paid, too? Come join us at the Colorado State University campus to tour some labs and see how this all works.
Successfully transferred students will walk you through their labs and introduce you to their research. They’ll introduce strategies for attaining employment in a lab and teach you about the benefits and challenges.
This event is geared toward Community College STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) and their educators. Typical itineraries will walk through 4 – 5 labs. Let us know your prospective or potential majors, and we’ll try to match you with a lab in that field. This is a great way to help narrow down your field of study!
Registration
Limited spots are available. Please register here by Friday, April 4, 2025:
Please contact erinnish at colostate.edu for information about late registration.
Location, Parking, and Other Logistics
ARRIVAL: Please plan to arrive early, by at least 12:45 pm to allow time for parking and other logistics. If you are driving from a distance, please allow time for traffic.
MEETING POINT: Please meet in at the flower beds at the corner of Lake Street and Center Avenue at 1 pm. We will be there with name tags and clip boards, you can’t miss it! We will go from there to AZ H130, our “home base”. You can leave your belongings there during tours. We will have snacks and drinks available for you at this location.
PARKING: You will park in the Lake Street Garage (see map above), on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th floor. Type “Lake Street Garage” into Google Maps.
- You can also park in the Pitkin Garage if the Lake Street Garage is full.
- Your Parking cost is included in this event. See e-mail to register for parking.
- If you forgot to register for parking, please let us know when you arrive
TOUR GUIDE: Your tour guide’s information has been sent via e-mail.
PREPARATION: This is a walking tour! The tour will take you through several buildings across campus. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for spending some time outside. There are water bottle filling stations all over campus, so please consider bringing a water bottle as well. The weather should be moderate on Friday. If at any point in the tour you begin to feel overexerted or dehydrated, please let your tour guide or an organizer know.
SCOPE: I want to stress that the focus of this event is finding and navigating undergraduate research opportunities in CSU STEM labs. If you have questions about the logistics of transferring credits, the admissions process, financial aid, etc. your tour guide may know a little about the process but won’t be an authority on the subject. We will have a short Q&A with the Transfer Office so you can ask those questions and get some resources to follow up later!
HELP! I’M LOST OR I’M LATE: Please text or call Erin or Kayla (numbers in e-mail sent to you).
SCHEDULE: The schedule for your tours has been sent via e-mail. You will receive a printed copy when you arrive on campus. We wanted you to have a record of the labs you see so that you can follow up with them afterward, so don’t be shy about reaching out to anyone on the tour!
FUN STUFF: We will have lots of fun stuff to give away and a raffle!
Schedules
Schedules will be announced the week of 4/7/2025. Below is an example of a tour schedule:
Group A – Example
Group B – Example
Reception
After the final tour, we will have a reception at 4:15 in AZ H130. We will have refreshments and swag. The lab hosts will join so you can ask more questions.
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Questions & Concerns
If you have questions or concerns about this event, please contact Erin Nishimura (erinnish@colostate.edu).
Hosts & Sponsors
This event has been made possible by generous funding from the National Science Foundation. Grants received include CAREER (MCB 2143849) awarded to PI Erin Nishimura.
This event has been organized by the following people:
- Erin Nishimura – CSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology – Professor
- Kayla Stewart – CSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology – Laboratory Manager