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Program Director:
Dr. Marilyn Winkleby
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine/Stanford Prevention Research Center
211 Quarry Road, N229
Stanford, CA 94305-5705
6507237055
winkleby@stanford.edu
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This Precollege Science Education Outreach Program funds the integration and expansion of 3 biomedical outreach programs in the fields of Medical Sciences, Immunology, and Genetics within the Stanford University School of Medicine. The 3 existing programs form the foundation for integrated and new activities for high school students, teachers, Stanford students, families, and the community. The goal is to offer scientific training to high school students, with a special emphasis on low-income and ethnic minority students who are in great need of science education. Centered in Santa Clara County, California, the program draws on local scientific resources and expertise to specifically target the County¿s large underserved population and expands activities to the 11 under-resourced high schools in the San Jose East Side Union High School District that serves 20,000 students.
The 3 programs in the Initiative are:
(1) Medical Sciences (Dr. Winkleby). This biomedical pipeline program recruits 24 extremely low-income high school students from Northern California each summer for a 5-week, university-based program. The 24 students live on campus in a residential home with 10 Stanford undergraduate students. The program also partners with biology teachers at 4 high schools to recruit approximately 100 African American, Latino, and Native American students for an academic year, school-based program. Inquiry-based science, hypothesis-driven research, hospital internships/clinical shadowing, and college/career guidance distinguish the curricula. Of the 452 students who have completed the university-based program, 82% have graduated from a 4-year college (excluding those still in high school or college). This compares to 28% among 25-34 year old California adults, regardless of income level.
(2) Immunology (Dr. Utz). This program recruits an ethnically diverse group of 25 high school students from Santa Clara County each summer and pairs them with scientists and 30-35 graduate students and fellows for 8 weeks to conduct research in Stanford¿s clinical immunology laboratories. Students perform hands-on, hypothesis-driven experiments, supported by an age-appropriate syllabus, and participate in interactive workshops on career guidance and topical medical issues (e.g., stem cell research, HIV infection). The students also develop independent research projects where they are taught how to design and execute experiments, and interpret their results. Their research culminates in student-led presentations and scientific posters. 113 students have completed the program and 100% have matriculated into college, or are planning to do so.
(3) Genetics (Dr. Starr, with Dr. Myers). This museum-based program is a partnership between Stanford¿s Department of Genetics and Silicon Valley¿s renowned Tech Museum of Innovation, located in the San Jose East Side Union High School District. A Stanford geneticist works full-time at the museum exhibit, ¿Genetics: Technology with a Twist.¿ 10-12 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are trained to work for 5 hours a week for 6 months to guide approximately 1,000 high school students and 5,000 community members through four 15-minute hands-on genetics activities (e.g., DNA analysis, protein purification) annually. An additional 3,000 high school students and 25,000 community members are reached annually through a popular computer-assisted bacterial transformation activity, available in English and Spanish.
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