Hi STEM Students!

San Diego Mesa College is on remote operation status lasting for an indefinite time. For campus updates, please visit www.sdmesa.edu/COVID19. Additional resources are also available on the San Diego Community College District website at https://www.sdccd.edu/.

Student Resources: tinyurl.com/MesaStudentResourcesCOVID19

Below are opportunities, resources, and upcoming events! Make sure to scroll all the way down to view the entire newsletter :) If you have any questions about the resources/events below please email Fabiola Beas at [email protected]

Thank you,
HSI STEM Conexiones Team

*Announcement*

Students, please make sure to check your email's spam folder. There have been several reports of emails from sdccd.edu addresses landing in students' Gmail spam folders. To avoid this issue you can set a filter to ensure emails from sdccd.edu land in your inbox. Below are the instructions: 

How to Prevent SDCCD Emails from Landing in Gmail's Spam Folder

1. Open Gmail. In the search box at the top, click the Down arrow

2. Enter "@sdccd.edu" under "From". At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter.
3. Choose "Never send it to Spam".. Click Create filter

Virtual STEM Events

http://www.sdmesa.edu/academics/schools-departments/mathematics-natural-sciences/mcrc/

Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30 pm https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95355822930

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), A Cure Is On The Way! Follow the yellow brick road to

the land of new hope and discoveries for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Speaker: Dr. Manjiri Dahdul

Friday, March 12^th Noon-1:30 pm https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99275385609 Flies, Eyes And Alzheimer's. Learn how the simple fruit fly, (Drosophila melanogaster), can be used to provide insights into the complex disorder of Alzheimer disease. Speaker: Dr. Suren Ambegaokar

Monday, March 22^nd 7-8:30 pm https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/95480395006 A Funshop On Neural Networks. Bring your thinking caps, paper, and pencil – you’ll learn to build, train, and run your own neural networks from scratch. No prior math or programming knowledge required! Speaker: Dr. Bradley Hughes

Innovation Research Lab

The Innovation Research Lab will remain closed until further notice.
Questions? Contact: [email protected]
www.sdmesa.edu/irl

Mesa Student Services Updates

Noah Rojas-Domke is a Peer Navigator and STEM major! Interested in STEM? Reach out to Noah at [email protected] or ask for his AVANZA office hours.