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NEWS Dec 31 2003

Teacher, Teens Target Mars
When Spirit, the first of two NASA Mars rovers, lands on the red planet on January 3, 2004, high school senior Kristen Curtis, junior Katie Reedy, and their biology teacher, Marilou Bebak, will be...
NEWS Dec 3 2003

Biotechnology Goes to School
When Dina Link, a biology teacher at Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland, teaches her students DNA fingerprinting, they can't believe they are getting the opportunity to actually do it...
NEWS Oct 1 2003

High School Biology: Learning by Doing
Sarah Horning is slapping pictures up on the white board at the front of her Stone Bridge High School biology classroom in Loudoun County, Virginia: lightning, lichen, a zebra, a car, fire, fungus,...
NEWS Sep 12 2003

Trying Science On for Size
Katelyn Parker will never forget the wolves. There's something about wolves howling at 3 a.m., on an overnight visit to the remote Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minnesota, that makes a...
NEWS Jul 22 2003

Tag, You're IT
Five pairs of anxious "parents" hover as five brightly-colored LEGO robots lurch like awkward toddlers unsure of their direction or capabilities. Wheels fall off; bumpers drop. One robot's creator...
NEWS Jun 24 2003

Community Outreach Grants to Biomedical Research Centers
Biomedical research institutions function as integral members of the communities that their scientists call home. Now 19 of those research centers are receiving nearly $10 million in new grants from...
NEWS Jun 24 2003

Meet Some of the Grantees
In Mississippi Success Comes in Pairs What happens when high school students and teachers partner with scientists at a medical school? In Jackson, Mississippi, they produce a year-long...
NEWS Jun 6 2003

Taking Time to Smell the Flowers
Justin Thomas checks a purple-blue blossom against his wildflower bingo card. "That for sure is a blue phlox. Now all we need is a jack-in-the-pulpit." He takes off on a search for one. There's...

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