Historic Day for RAM Students

November 28, 2016

It was a field trip they’ll never forget: a “backstage” tour at the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Erwin Cabrera and RAM students

Seventeen FSC students enrolled in the RAM program recently visited the museum and were given exclusive access to private laboratories and preserved specimens. Led by post-doctoral researcher Dr. John Burns of the museum’s Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, students learned how the museum carries out its mission to “discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe.”

“It was wonderful to see the students fully grasp the concept of research and see it first-hand,” said RAM associate director Dr. Erwin Cabrera, who along with biology professor Lorraine Bondi-Goldsmith, accompanied the students on the eye-opening trip. “Our RAM scholars were able to understand how research and discovery eventually leads to what is written in their textbooks.”

Said Tahj Amonds, a freshman Science, Technology & Society major: “The trip taught me how interesting research can be and it has inspired me to strive for bigger and better things.”