Through the the Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Experience for Teachers (BIORETs) program, Rebecca Torres, a teacher at Milton Hershey School, worked on a project with faculty members researching the best ways to grow industrial hemp in reclaimed mine land.
Tiffany Lewis, STEM outreach education specialist with the Penn State Center for Science and the Schools welcomed teachers and faculty members participating in the BIORETS Research Experience for Teachers program.
Teachers who participated in the Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Experience for Teachers (BIORETs) program were paired with Penn State Harrisburg faculty members for research on various topic. Maggie Reading, a biology teacher from Florida, worked with Shobha Rudrabhatla, associate teaching professor of biology, on a project researching the best ways to grow industrial hemp in reclaimed mine land.
Nik Tsotakos, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Harrisburg, talks with Zonnelle Hanley, a teacher from Florida, in a lab. Teachers who participated in the Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Experience for Teachers (BIORETs) program were paired with Penn State Harrisburg faculty members for research projects.
Eight middle and high school teachers spent the summer working closely with Penn State Harrisburg faculty members on research projects, gaining skills and experience they will now take back to their classrooms.
The Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Experience for Teachers (BIORETs) program, offered for the first time at Penn State Harrisburg this summer, provides research training to secondary science teachers in underserved school districts.
Through the the Synthetic and Systems Biology Research Experience for Teachers (BIORETs) program, Rebecca Torres, a teacher at Milton Hershey School, worked on a project with faculty members researching the best ways to grow industrial hemp in reclaimed mine land.
Eight middle and high school teachers spent the summer working closely with Penn State Harrisburg faculty members on research projects, gaining skills and experience they will now take back to their classrooms.
The Penn State DuBois Office of Student Engagement will welcome students and members of the public to Hiller Auditorium on Monday, Sept. 23, when Colombian American poet Carlos Andrés Gómez will perform his original work.
