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Program Director:
Dr. James Ferraro
Associate Professor
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Department of Physiology
Carbondale, IL 62901-6512
6184531593
jferraro@som.siu.edu
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In 1994 HHMI awarded Southern Illinois University School of Medicine $225,000 for a three-part program for teachers and students, grades 6-12. The overall objective of this program is to generate, reinforce, and maintain interest in biological sciences and health care as a career for precollege students in rural, culturally diverse, economically depressed, and medically underserved communities in southern Illinois. Partnerships with precollege science faculty were created and a program was developed to provide educational opportunities that highlight the process of science and challenge students to ask questions, determine how to approach the problem, develop a method of investigation, objectively analyze the results, appropriately modify the hypothesis, and focus the next line of questioning. The mechanisms used to accomplish these goals also include the use of state-of-the-art equipment and further developing long-term educational partnerships between Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the precollege education institutions. The program (1) provides students with hands-on laboratory experience during an eight-week summer program that teams a working scientist with the student to conduct research projects, where the student learns by doing in an interactive format; (2) creates "mentor/partner" relationships between School of Medicine faculty and precollege teachers, which provide resource personnel, equipment, and training to the teacher for the development of hands-on mobile science in the classroom; and (3) provides a resource of seminars by working scientists that can be incorporated into the precollege curriculum (area high schools and middle schools are able to select from a list of available topics and speakers). Two additional schools are added to the program each year. In 1998-1999, five high schools and five middle schools from seven southern Illinois communities are program participants.
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