Science, Technology, and Research Scholars (STARS) Program
STARS is a two-week summer research experience designed to promote full participation in the next generation of scientists, doctors, and other health professionals. This program provides students with state-of-the-art laboratory and computer science skills needed to succeed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) in college and beyond, and is tailored to the needs of students from contexts that may have excluded them from STEM. Students will conduct hands-on science and computer projects and participate in enrichment activities including discussions with researchers, and tours of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and University campuses. After the two-week program, students will also have a line of communication to mentors who can provide advice on preparing for college, and finding future research experiences (including Partners for the Future).
Applications open annually, each January, decisions by May.
First summer of STARS enrollment
Summer research introduction:
- Family welcome program and alumni meetup (Saturday before start of STARS STEMM)
- Week 1: Molecular biology experiments, intended to give students an initial grounding in basic laboratory techniques.
- Week 2: Coding skills and bioinformatics expose students to data science and computing in biology. We also include an off-site field trip to Stony Brook University.
Ongoing High School research experiences
After the summer of enrollment STARS students are supported with:
- Participation in DNA Learning Center DNA Barcoding research programs.
- Application and placement in other summer research, internships, and shadowing opportunities (e.g., Partners for the Future, other local and national programs).
- College prep and application help (priority given to 11th and 12th graders).
- Assistance with research experiences as well as graduate and medical school guidance and job placement (college students)
- Assistance in tutoring as needed.
Ongoing mentoring and alumni activities
Regularly discussion and advice on career topics, academic success, and study/work/life balance:
- Monthly virtual and in-person meetups for all STARS high school alumni.
- Quarterly meetups for STARS college alumni.
DNALC Cold Spring Harbor
| Student | High School | Grade Entering |
|---|---|---|
| Arianna Samai Alvarez | Central Islip High School | 11 |
| Melanie Cai | Jericho High School | 12 |
| Sophie Chen | Newfield High School | 11 |
| Grace Cho | Bethpage High School | 11 |
| Annabella Yuting Hamilton | Kellenberg Memorial High School | 10 |
| Corie-Ann Alyssa Hutchinson | Academy Charter High School | 12 |
| Parker E Janes | LaGuardia High School | 11 |
| Wardah Khizer | Valley Stream North High School | 12 |
| Amelia Lin | Syosset High school | 11 |
| Garrick Lo | Walt Whitman High School | 11 |
| Sofia Hayet Maamouri | Half Hollow Hills HS East | 12 |
| Juliana Elise Nuss | Sachem East High School | 12 |
| Alan Emil Porada | Sachem East High School | 12 |
| Joshua Huiho Roh | Syosset High School | 11 |
| Dana Shi | West Islip High School | 12 |
| Robbie Axel Torres | Central Islip High School | college |
| Lucas Zheng | Syosset High School | 10 |
| Kellyn Dayana Amador | Walter G O’Connell Copiague High School | 10 |
| Davin Li | Bronx High School of Science | 11 |
DNALC NYC
| Student | High School | Grade Entering |
|---|---|---|
| Danylo Andrushchenko | The Waldorf School of Garden City | 12 |
| Autumn A. Curry | Staten Island Technical High School | 11 |
| Rossana Feng | Edward R. Murrow High School | 12 |
| Sophie Ghalem | The Brooklyn Latin School | 10 |
| Ryan Dave Gosine | Queens High School for the Sciences | 11 |
| Catherine Ho | New Dorp High School | 12 |
| Emelia Charlotte Hosey | Ross School | 10 |
| Armina Khan | Thomas A. Edison Career Technical High School | 12 |
| Samari Bella Lloclla | Horace Mann | 11 |
| Ella Newman | High School of American Studies at Lehman College | 10 |
| Tsz Lun N/A Qin | Stuyvesant High School | 11 |
| Lucas A. Rodriguez | East Side High School | 10 |
| Clara Senada | All City Leadership Secondary School | 12 |
| Da Kyeong Shin | Bayside High School | 11 |
| Chloe Tang | Riverdale Country School | 10 |
| Joseph Uthuppan | Archbishop Stepinac High School | 10 |
| Daphne Vaisman | Central Islip High School | 12 |
| Paolo Rafael Velez | TASIS Dorado | 10 |
| Anthony A. Villa | Regis High School | 10 |
| Haowen Xiao | Stuyvesant High School | 12 |
| Jennifer Zheng | Stuyvesant High School | 10 |
| Harry Ling Zheng | Oak Hall School | 10 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Max Lashley | The Kew Forest School | 11 |
| Sofia Janice Ricci | Sanford H. Calhoun High School | 11 |
| Chloe Nuccio | St. Anthony’s High School | 11 |
| Kayla Cruz | Deer Park High School | 11 |
| Ben Noah Maciel Seidman | Bethpage High School | 11 |
| Leticia L. Kim | Central Islip Senior High School | 11 |
| Anjolie Serrette | Calhoun High School | 10 |
| Ikshan Rao | Syosset High School | 10 |
| Quentin Delgado | Brooklyn Technical High School | 11 |
| Rachel Agbenyega | Pelham Memorial High School | 10 |
| Carlisle Edward Ramos Tomas | G.W. Hewlett High School | 10 |
| Jazlyn Maria Rubio | Central Islip High School | 12 |
| Nicolas Emmanuel Pereira | Freeport High School | 10 |
| Anaeli Muñoz | Convent of the Sacred Heart | 11 |
| Susan Teresa Leach | Amityville Memorial High School | 10 |
| Melanie Mangru-Narine | Amityville Memorial High School | 10 |
| Aaron J. Cummings | Half Hallow Hills West | 11 |
| Jesus Emmanuel Garcia | Fordham Prep | 12 |
| Chelsea Melinda Tapia Allen | Paul D. Schreiber High School | 10 |
| Alexis Stefanopoulos Ramirez | Commack High School | 10 |
| Kamryn N. Fells | Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School | 10 |
| Emma Lesly Francis | Half Hollow Hills High School West | 10 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis Acevedo | Huntington High School | 12 |
| Logan Acuria-Lauer | General Douglas MacArthur High School | 10 |
| Liah Branam-McClurkin | Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School | 12 |
| Aydan Cowan | Long Island Lutheran High School | 12 |
| Dante Del Vecchio | Schreiber High School | 11 |
| Madelyn Eisenberg | Half Hollow Hills High School West | 10 |
| Eliana Eisenberg | Half Hollow Hills High School West | 10 |
| Amasa Ellis | East Stroudsburg High School South | 10 |
| Angelina Gonzalez Villalba | Valley Stream North High School | 11 |
| Sury Guadalupe-Pena | Stony Brook School | 10 |
| Allison Hernandez | Commack High School | 10 |
| Madison Jairala | North Shore High School | 11 |
| Morgan Jairala | North Shore High School | 9 |
| Gabrielle Jeanty | Holy Trinity DHS | 10 |
| Isabel Larrea | Kellenberg Memorial High School | 11 |
| Jean-Parnell Louis | Long Island Lutheran Middle and High School | 12 |
| Joaquin Martin | Lynbrook High School | 10 |
| Augustin Mingoia Murphy | Garden City High School | 12 |
| Giovanna Petruccelli | Manhasset Secondary School | 11 |
| Derek Poetzsch | Hicksville High School | 11 |
| Peter Ruiz II | Island Trees HS | 11 |
| Sara Tovar | Harborfields High School | 11 |
| Saydee Westman | Homeschool | 10 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Kiangelo Arce | Kellenberg | 12 |
| Kaydee Bonilla | Copiague | 10 |
| Grant Creedon | Locust Valley | 9 |
| Ayomide Ewumi | Freeport | 12 |
| Christian Fils-Aime | Stony Brook School | 10 |
| Carina Garcia | Baldwin | 11 |
| Sofia Garnier | Valley Stream North | 11 |
| Erin Garnier | Valley Stream North | 10 |
| Steven Hernandez | Central Islip | 12 |
| Christopher Hidalgo | Central Islip | 11 |
| Kadiann Hudson | The Academy Charter School | 10 |
| Madison Jairala | North Shore | 10 |
| Glorianni Pena Feliz | Copiague | 10 |
| Gianluca Pillaga | Central Islip | 11 |
| Daniel Sanwo | Half Hollow Hills East | 10 |
| David Sanwo | Half Hollow Hills East | 11 |
| Siera Smith | Long Island Lutheran | 10 |
| Isabella Stefanopoulos Ramirez | Commack | 10 |
| Aidan Vera | Baldwin | 12 |
| Gabriella Williams | Elmont Memorial | 11 |
| Eran Ximines-Colon | Brentwood | 10 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Gentiva Abrahams | Freeport | Graduate |
| Jordan Blake | District 1 | 10 |
| Camille Crumpton | West Hempstead | 10 |
| Chrysnell Destina | Central Islip | 11 |
| Carlos Diaz | Wyandanch | 10 |
| Kelly Gaussaint | Central Islip | 10 |
| Jayden Hoff Isabell | Huntington | 10 |
| Nile Jean | Westbury | 10 |
| Madison Krug | Farmingdale | 11 |
| Kenly Moran | Freeport | 11 |
| Osaretinmwen Oriakhi | Central Islip | 12 |
| Joshua Paz | District 28 | 10 |
| Julia Rodriguez | Farmingdale | 10 |
| Evan Spagnoletti | Huntington | 11 |
| Lucas Spagnoletti | Huntington | 10 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Jaime Abreu | Freeport | 11 |
| Donal Akerele | Half Hollow Hills | 10 |
| Madelynd Argueta | Brentwood | 11 |
| Harrison Banks | Tenafly, NJ | 10 |
| Skyler Basco | Bellmore-Merrick | 12 |
| Matthew Beal | Half Hollow Hills | 10 |
| Khameira Bradshaw | Bedford Stuyvesant | 12 |
| Jordan Brown | Manhasset | 11 |
| Anna Carvajal | Copiague | 12 |
| Stephanie Dyer | Half Hollow Hills West | 12 |
| Ellis Eisenberg | Half Hollow Hills | 10 |
| Ashley Ferreira | Mineola | 10 |
| Brianna Francis | The Scholars’ Academy | 12 |
| Samantha Gonzalez | Copiague | 12 |
| Isabel Louie | Sacred Heart Academy | 10 |
| Gabriel Morales-Flores | Huntington | 12 |
| Leann Nicholas | Farmingdale | 12 |
| Rachael Peterkin | Radnor | 12 |
| Catalina Ramirez | Hempstead/Rockville Centre | 10 |
| Edinelly Rosario | Copiague | 12 |
| Gianna Russell-Irace | New York District 30 | 12 |
| Logan Saenz | Broward County | 12 |
| Jenna Schetty | Cold Spring Harbor | 10 |
| Bianca Stith | Bronx 8 | 11 |
| Olivia Taylor | Watkinson School | 11 |
| Sofía Valdebenito | East Rockaway | 11 |
| Angelique Wheeler | Chappaqua Central | 11 |
| Student | High school | Grade at enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Joelle Ade | Brentwood | 10 |
| Q’irah Ali | Brentwood | 10 |
| Damani Aristilde | Freeport | 11 |
| Diana Benedicto-Jimenez | Port Washington | 10 |
| Joshua Cabrera | St. Anthony’s | 11 |
| Janelle Cabrera | St. Anthony’s | 11 |
| Amir Cambridge | Farmingdale | 12 |
| Derek Cortavarria | Brentwood | 10 |
| Jaden Davis | District 27 | 10 |
| Valentina Flores | Middle Country | 10 |
| Joanna Flores | Locust Valley | 11 |
| Lidia Flores | South Huntington | 11 |
| Zen Ho Sang | Central Islip | 11 |
| Elijah Johnson | Copiague | 12 |
| Jason Lazo | Central Islip | 11 |
| Jennifer Martinez | Diocese of Rockville Centre | 12 |
| Elsy Martinez | Hempstead | 11 |
| Justin McCoy | North Babylon | 10 |
| Oscar Murga | Central Islip | 12 |
| Jose Quito | Central Islip | 11 |
| Deyby Rodriguez | Central Islip | 11 |
| DenMark Simon | North Babylon | 11 |
| Anthony Valle | Hempstead | 11 |
| Natalie Villalba | Central Islip | 11 |
| Nigel Williams | Sewanhaka | 11 |
| Z’Dhanne Williams | Amityville | 12 |
| Olivia Wright | Amityville | 10 |