<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-student-1-of-10-in-u-s-picked-for-new-national-science-foundation-funded-program.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>06/01/2021 01:49:23 PM</pubDate><title>BC3 student 1 of 10 in U.S. picked for new National Science Foundation-funded program</title><subtitle>Biological science major attributes selection to genetic sequencing project</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College president’s scholar attributes her selection to a National Science Foundation-funded residential research program in Virginia to a novel genetic sequencing project required in a freshman-level BC3 biology course.</description><author/><image-caption>Hope Miller, 19, a Butler County Community College president’s scholar and biological science major, is one of 10 first-year community college students nationwide to be selected to attend a National Science Foundation-funded residential research program at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Miller, shown Monday, April 26, 2021, in a BC3 science laboratory, is researching visual neuroscience at James Madison University and plans to become a neurologist.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2021</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2021/bc3-student-1-of-10-in-us-picked-for-new-national-science-foundation-funded-program.jpg" alt="Hope Miller, in front of a microscope portrait"/></image></item>