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Monday, 09 November 2009

 

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Featured Websites

Dolan DNA Learning Center

Education Grants
From Education Week

Exploratorium:
The museum of science, art and human perception. the site includes over 15,000 pages of educational information and several thousand video feeds.

Math and Science Gateway
Science Portal providing math and science links for advanced high school students.

Science Fair Central
This portion of the Discovery Channel's homework site offers suggestions and advice on science fair projects.

The Virtual Body
An interactive website that uses animation to demonstrate the workings of the human body, from the skeletal system, muscular, and circulatory system.

 

 


 

2010  Science Fair Information

 

Region II Science and Engineering Fair

 

Lee E. Williams Athletics and Assembly Center
Jackson State University

 

Upper Level High School Fair

(Grades 7-12)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

 

 

Lower Level, Elementary Fair (Grades 1-6)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

 

 

 

Mississippi Science Olympiad
March 26, 2010

 



 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Robin Rockhold working with former Base Pair students.

 

 

Base Pair , SOAR  and RBI Schools
 

Bailey Magnet High School

Brandon High School

Callaway High School
Enterprise Attendance Center

Forest Hill High School

Jim Hill High School

Madison Central High School

Northwest Rankin High School

Murrah High School

Provine High School

Puckett Attendance Center


School District Websites

Jackson Public School District

Lincoln County School District

Madison County School District

Rankin County School District

 

 

 
 


Base Pair Teacher Named
MSTA Outstanding High School Teacher of the Year

 

Jeffery Stokes, Base Pair Teacher at Murrah High School, was recently named as Outstanding High School Teacher of the Year by the Mississippi Science Teacher's Association.


 

Fire Ants Invade

Researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center are working on the Muse of Fire Project with students and teachers from Jackson Public Schools.

In the Southeast, every child is familiar with the fire ant and its sting," said Rockhold. "That connection is a potent stimulus for students to understand the fire of the sting. All of these are questions that children have after the sting. With inspiration from Shakespeare's play Henry V, we are using the fire ant as the muse of fire."

                                                                                                                -Dr. Rob Rockhold
   MUSE OF FIRE DETAILS

JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRESS RELEASE

WLBT VIDEO: FIRE ANT RESEARCH COULD HELP FIGHT CANCER

 

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SOAR Student, K. Deloach uses a water bath to collect fire ant DNA.

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(From left) Tim Fizer, Susan Bender, and A. Conic, a senior Jim Hill SOAR student, carefully add the appropriate amounts of reagents.

Photos by Peggy Hampton.  See additional photos in the photo gallery below.

PHOTOS FROM THE
 SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM PHOTO GALLERY

Fire Ant Resources

Wolbachia
 Wolbachia website funded by the
National Science Foundation

Wolbachia Collection
Microbial Life
Educational Collection

Fire Ant Resources 

Photographs
http://www.myrmecos.net

Visit this site to view vivid photos of fire ants and
other insects.

Mississippi State Extension Service Fire Ant Information

Indoor Fire Ant Invasions

Controlling Fire Ants

MEM publications and presentations about Ants
(with pdf and ppt links)

Mississippi Ants

 

 


OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS

High School and Middle School Field Test Teachers Needed
 February and March 2010

 

BSCS is currently developing two science education supplements with funding from the National Institutes of Health. The middle school supplement, Rare Diseases and Scientific Inquiry, focuses on how scientists use scientific inquiry to learn about rare diseases and how learning about rare diseases helps us understand human systems. The high school supplement, Evolution and Medicine, focuses on how evolutionary principles inform medical practice and our understanding of human health and disease.

Field-test teachers will attend a two-day orientation workshop at BSCS (Colorado Springs, Colorado) in January 2010. BSCS will pay all lodging, travel, and meal expenses and teachers will receive a stipend after completing the field-test process. BSCS staff will make site visits to selected schools to observe the field-testing process.

If you have questions visit the website at http://bscs.org or  email or call BSCS Science Educator Paul Beardsley at 719.219.4177 or BSCS Science Educator Mark Bloom at 719.219.4167. .


 


 
 
 

Important Notices & Dates


 

IMPORTANT REMINDER
Group of Five Meeting
 
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
4:00-5:00 P.M.
We will welcome Dr. Sean Abram as our guest
G301 Guyton Building (Original)
Please call Gail for directions.
 
Please note change from a Monday meeting to a Tuesday meeting
and
Change of location from U174 to G301.
 
 

2009 Summer Research Institute

Forensics, Biotechnology and fire ant modules


Apoptosis

An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigations

DNA Microarrays
Wet Lab Testing for Cancer Oncogene Regulation

"Mounds of Fun"
A Study on the Micro-Macroecology of a Fire Ant Infested Area as Compared to an Un-infested Area"

Gene Symbols

Human Health Impacts of Fire Ant Stings

Microarray Paper Simulation

Microarrayism

"Pop Goes the Yeast Cell" Simulation of Red  Imported Fire Ant Venom Induced Apoptosis"

Microarrary Simulations Using Simulated  Red  Imported Fire Ant Venom

Explorations in Fire Ant Molecular Biology:
Colony Form and Wolbachia Endosymbiosis

Toxicology Explorer:
A Student Primer On Toxicology


 

 

Two Murrah High School Base Pair students represented Mississippi on
July 8-12, 2009 in the ACT-SO competition in New York City.
Visit the JPS site for additional details.

 

 

 

Rhea Richardson

R. Richardson

 

Eshan Safaya

E. Safaya

 


 

As Seen at MSTA
 

Presentation at the National Science Teachers Association Annual Conference in New Orleans
March 20, 2009

"Fire Ant Epidemiology"



Presentation by SOAR teacher
Susan Bender


 

 

 


 

Take a glimpse inside the Base Pair program.
 Click on the text below to view a brief video by Base Pair lead teacher Jeff Stokes.

 

The Base Pair Program
at Murrah High School
The video will open in a new window.

About Base Pair

Base Pair, initiated in 1992 is a mentorship program that pairs faculty from the University of Mississippi Medical Center with high school students and educators from the Jackson Public School District. Base Pair  provides academic credit towards graduation, career orientation and advanced laboratory training in the biomedical sciences.
 

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recently funded the Base Pair program for an additional five years.  The program received a grant of more than $695,000.  HHMI is the largest private supporter of science education initiatives in the world. 

 


 

   

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