Outreach Core

The overall goal of the Outreach Core is to provide students on undergraduate campuses throughout Kansas with opportunities to become involved in and excited to pursue biomedical research as a profession. On these campuses, students major in biology, chemistry or, on some campuses, health related professions. Thus, outreach efforts are not specifically designed for trainees in cell and developmental biology. Programs described in the Undergraduate Support Core for the K-INBRE that have been successful are continued and a new program, Partnering, brings together our Scientific Partner investigators and students as well as faculty on outreach campuses.

Through the Core’s Partnering Program, Scientific Partner investigators work together with students and faculty on the six Outreach campuses: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Haskell Indian Nations University, Pittsburg State University and Washburn University in Kansas, along with Langston University in Oklahoma. The Partnering Program fosters collaborative science by encouraging faculty to visit other campuses to gather data for grant submissions and learn new techniques. By offering such Partnering opportunities, the K-INBRE also encourages undergraduates to choose science as a major and bioscience as a career, which contributes to growing a skilled workforce for Kansas’ emerging bioscience industry.

K-INBRE Partnering Program Guidelines

Outreach Core Contacts

Joan Hunt, PhD, DSc
Principal Investigator, K-INBRE
University Distinguished Professor
Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Research Infrastructure
University of Kansas Medical Center
Mail Stop 3050, 3901 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone: 913-588-7270; Fax: 913-588-7180
jhunt@kumc.edu

Peter Smith, PhD
Associate Director, K-INBRE
Director, Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
University of Kansas Medical Center
Mail Stop 3051, 3901 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone: 913-588-7409; Fax: 913-588-5677
psmith@kumc.edu