'BRAINYACs' at Zuckerman Institute

A student wearing blue lab gloves uses a scientific instrument to put a specimen onto a lab slide for observation as a professor looks on at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.

August 23, 2024

Columbia's Zuckerman Institute provides high school students in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx with hands-on research experience through the Brain Research Apprenticeships in New York at Columbia (BRAINYAC) program — preparing today's youth to become tomorrow's scientists!

Learn more about the BRAINYAC program. 


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