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      Month: April 2019

      STEM Like Me, Teacher Resources

      Rosalind Franklin

      Rosalind Franklin

      Last Thursday, April 25th, was DNA Day. We are celebrating DNA Day by featuring Rosalind Franklin as our STEM Like Me scientist of the week. Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist who helped the scientific community understand the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, and more. She worked at the British Coal Utilisation Research Association…

      April 30, 2019 by STEM Center
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      Congratulations to our 2018 REU Students!

      Congratulations to our 2018 REU Students!

      Last week, the STEM Center’s 2018 REU students presented their summer research at the Mississippi River Research Consortium. Student presentation topics focused on examining long-term archaeological and ecological data sets to explore patterns in these data sets that might be consistent with expectations of anthropogenic influences on fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River. Students…

      April 29, 2019 by Carol Colaninno-Meeks
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      DNA Day!

      DNA Day!

      Today, 4/25, is national DNA day! This is a day to commemorate the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, as well as the discovery in 1953 of DNA’s double helix. National DNA Day is a way to celebrate the newest advances in genomic research, and educate people about these advances. To help…

      April 25, 2019 by STEM Center
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      Item of the Week, Teacher Resources

      STEM Center Item of the Week!

      STEM Center Item of the Week!

      This Week’s Item of the Week is our Biology Coloring Book, and in honor of DNA day today, we chose a page focusing on the double helix structure of DNA. This book has steps to follow for coloring in structures and then gives descriptions of the science behind the subject. Here in the STEM center…

      April 25, 2019 by STEM Center
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      Inez Fung

      Inez Fung

      Inez Fung, a climatologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was born and raised in Hong Kong. After graduating from King’s College, she moved to the United States and earned her bachelor of science in applied mathematics from MIT. She continued her education at MIT, studying how spiral rainbands in a hurricane are organized, and she…

      April 23, 2019 by STEM Center
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