Gennady Gor: Outreach
Summer Research Program for Community College Students
In Summer 2023 Dr. Irina Molodetsky started a new summer program, a collaboration between between the NJIT CME Department and Bergen Community College STEM program. Dr. Gor was one of the mentors in the first year. This video, made by Ella Ivanova, gives an idea of the program and various projects, highlighting a computational project by Geordy Jomon among others.
In addition to serving as a mentor, Dr. Gor participated in the Research Project Showcase organized by Bergen Community College, serving as a judge for students posters, and as a pannelist in the Career Connection.
Popular Lectures for High-School Students
Gennady Gor has been involved in K-12 education for a number of years, working as a high-school physics teacher before getting his doctoral degree.
Gennady visited the Liberty Science Center and met with the participants high-school summer research program Partners in Science to speak on "College and Research: Q&A with a ChemE Professor".
Gennady presented a overview of ChemE profession and ChemE research for a group high-school students participating in the Liberty Science Center's summer research program Partners in Science. The recording of the lecture is available on Youtube.
Gennady Gor presented a lecture for the high-school students at 30ka, one of the top Russian high schools, specialized in math and physics. The topics covered included the basics of molecular modeling, as well as a Q&A on careers in STEM.
Mentoring High-School Students in the Lab
Each summer the Gor lab hosts high-school students carrying out research either through NJIT Provost High School Intern Program or the ACS SEED program (the summer research program for economically disadvantaged high school students). The duration of these programs is six weeks of full-time research activities. Students start from short intense training in Python programming, and within the first two weeks they obtain the tools to work on their research projects. Meanwhile, the specific goals for the projects are set, and the student starts working towards it. Each of the high school students work as a part of a group, the PI, a Ph.D. student and an undergraduate student. Interactions with researchers at different stages of the career provides an opportunity of learning about a career paths in research.
In Summer 2020 both the NJIT Provost High School Intern Program and ACS SEED program were cancelled due to COVID-19. However, the Gor group hosted two high-school interns through Liberty Science Center's summer research program Partners in Science and started working with this program every summer.
In Summer 2023 the group hosted two high-school students from the Partners in Science program, a student from the ACS SEED Program, and a student from Bergen Community College.
The Gor group in Summer 2023. Left to right. Front row: Ashoka Karunarathne, Santiago Alberto Flores Roman, Rishan Tilve, Emely Urena, Allie Whittle, Gunel Nabiyeva, Ella Ivanova. Back row: Egor Demidov, Geordy Jomon, Gennady Gor, Matt Stickles.
The Gor group in Summer 2019. Left to right. Front row: Marcos Molina, Juan Valencia, Nick Corrente, Suneedhi Laddha. Back row: Chris Dobrzanski, Gennady Gor, Alina Emelianova. Max Maximov could have filled the gap in the front row, but he was on vacation. Photo by Nick Corrente
The Gor group in Summer 2018. Top row (left to right): Chris Dobrzanski (PhD student, ChE), Max Maximov (PhD student, ChE), Gennady Gor, Alina Emelianova (PhD student, ChE). Bottom row (left to right): Nick Corrente (BS student, ChE), Zach Lyandres (Tenafly High School), Juan Valencia (Union City High School), Emma King (BS student, ChE, Wellesley College)
The Gor group in Summer 2017. Left to right: Zach Lyandres (Tenafly High School), Armani-Christian Rojas (BS student, ChE), Gennady Gor, Chris Dobrzanski (PhD student, ChE), Marcelo Munoz (Union City High School).
The former high-school students are listed here, along with the other group alumni.
Emely Urena, a rising senior at the Jose Marti STEM Academy, and a summer intern in the Gor lab as a part of the ACS SEED program, with her mentor, Ph.D. student Ella Ivanova at her electronic poster at the 2023 Provost High School Interns Poster Symposium.
High school student Caroline Zhao presents her talk at the 34th Annual Partners in Science Program Presentations (August, 2020).
High school students Juan Valencia and Zachary Lyandres present their electronic posters on their research in the Gor group at the Summer 2018 Provost High School Interns Poster Symposium.
Regional New Jersey Science Olympiad
Dr. Gennady Gor, with the help of ChemE graduate students, Chris Dobrzanski, Max Maximov and Ahn Tong, supervised the experimental design tour of 2018 Regional New Jersey Science Olympiad.