You can see how these cells move and how an embryo develops.
>> This microscope actually won the Nobel prize three years ago, so
really big stuff [LAUGH].
>> They come into the labs never seeing a pipette or a live cell, and
in a matter of two weeks, they're presenting high-end research and
able to speak it, and it's just jaw-dropping.
>> When I look at the program across the board,
we are changing people's lives.
We are changing the way they think about themselves,
the way they feel about themselves, the way they envision their futures.
>> Good morning.
>> For almost a decade we've been building a pipeline initiative
that provides tremendous opportunities for
students that come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The very first year we brought in two students with the idea of just
giving them a laboratory job, and over the course of the last 10 years,
we've taken that initial idea and now its become a full umbrella
program that we call the Johns Hopkins Initiative for
Careers in Science and medicine.
It includes two high school components,
which is the Summer Academics Research Experience or
Sare, the Biophysics Research for Baltimore teens or BRBT.
The undergraduate portion's called the Summer Internship Program, and
then we have a post-doc portion that we call the Doctoral
diversity Program.
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>> And why cells move?
How do they move?
The consilium dispensability to migrate-
>> First off they're gonna have
mentored research experience and
this is where they're working in a laboratory on a research project
with their doctoral or post-doctoral fellow mentor.
But then there's a huge very large academic portion.
So at the high school level we have a very well developed
academic curriculum.
We push students on their math skills, their reading and
writing skills.
We talk about ethics, we talk about science of course, and
then the third major component is professionalism, and so
that includes all aspects of professionalism.
How to look a person in the eye when you're interacting with them,
how to show up on time, how to prepare your results and
be able to communicate those orally in a very professional scientific
presentation and how to dress for that presentation.
It's really fun to watch the scholars come through.
They become each other's families while they're here.
They're really supportive interactive group that all of
a sudden now recognizes that they're all capable of something much more
than they'd ever envisioned, and it's really inspiring to watch that.
When the scholars begin this summer,
they'd never been in this experience before.
Many of them have never had a job, which makes sense,
they're only 16, 17, 18 years of age.
And so this is all new, it's all foreign, and then you throw on top
of that the fact that we're placing very high demands,
the bar that we hold for the scholars is high.
By the end of the summer they have made that transformation, and
so now they're functioning like professional scientist, and
to demonstrate that we've got one scholar already who's a co-author
on a paper, and that's a huge accomplishment.
Many scholars will go back to school and
in many cases increase their GPAs by a four point or more.
We see 100% of our high school students have matriculated into four
year programs, and what's been remarkable is how many stories at
every level that we hear from high school students, and undergrads,
and post-backs,
where they will talk about how their friends have been inspired.
How their families have been inspired, and
I want to see this grow.
I want to see this last forever.
Spread to other universities across our country and make a major impact
changing people's lives everywhere that it goes.
You know, Hopkins was founded on a mission to improve health and in our
current times, the greatest health problems actually correlate more
with economic disparities than they do with really almost anything else.
And so by trying to improve the socioeconomic fabric
of our community, actually I think that's precisely within
the Hopkins mission of trying to improve healthcare more generally.
What we aspire to is to close that socioeconomic gap, and
help any capable scholar to be able to be a success.
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