Thursday, August 2, 2012

CSU researchers get $2.7M to study cells and share their work with kids - St. Louis Business Journal:

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million grant by the to help train graduate studentsin cell-researcu techniques and to share their scientific knowledge with local school teachers, CSU said The graduate students at the Fort Collins campus “wilpl test new theories about how cells behave usingg advanced engineering methods in microelectronics and electrochemistry,” CSU said in a That NSF-funded work will be led by CSU engineerinf professor Tom Chen, the grant’s principal investigator, joinecd by Stuart Tobet, a biomedicall sciences professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicakl Sciences, and Michael De an engineering education professor in the College of Applied Humaj Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduats students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teacherzs in the Poudre, Thompson Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoolk districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the grant is to help builf enthusiasm among primary and secondarg students for careersin science, technology, engineeringy and mathematics — the “STEM” — at a time when fewet young people are enteringg into such careers, CSU officials

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