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Fall 2007 NIH-Bridges/ RSVP Reunion Faculty and Students
The NIH Bridges Program
Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY) is unlike many institutions of higher education in the U.S. because it has an outstanding undergraduate program in the Natural Sciences that serves a high percentage of minority students (32.8%) and successfully places them in Master's and Ph.D. programs or the workforce. It also maintains strong partnerships with other local colleges and universities that have excellent science programs as well as with the surrounding corporate community.
Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY) in collaboration with Westchester Community College (WCC), Dutchess Community College (DCC), Orange County Community College (OCCC), the American Health Foundation/ Westchester Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Sullivan County, and funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree Program for underrepresented minority students that will enable them to attain careers or advanced degrees in biomedical research.