Community Engagement Core, Teacher Program
You may have seen some unfamiliar faces in the halls over the last few weeks. We are about halfway through this year's Environmental Health Research Experiences for Teachers program. Ten teachers are spending six weeks in CHHE labs getting hands-on experience that they can take back to their classrooms. Shout-out to the Buchwalter, Duckworth, Gaddameedhi, Hall and Marsden labs for hosting!
So far our teachers have nothing but good things to say about everyone they've worked with and how they're excited to talk to their students about how things like the PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing and cell cultures they're learning how to do are used to solve real-world problems like understanding ALS, treating cancer and improving water quality.
Late July we toured a bunch of CHHE labs around campus. Big thanks to the Bonner, Cowley, Hoyo, Meitzen, Roberts and Schal labs for giving the teachers a taste of your work! Teachers got to look at mayflies and lung cells under the microscope, see some "live" action in the Cowley lab, get up close and personal with bed bugs and cockroaches and check out a human brain. Mark your calendars for 10am on Friday 8/11 to see the teachers present posters about their time with us.
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