Sunday, April 3, 2011

CSU researchers get $2.7M to study cells and share their work with kids - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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million grant by the to help train graduatr studentsin cell-research techniques and to share theier scientific knowledge with local school teachers, CSU said The graduate students at the Fort Collinsa campus “will test new theories about how cells behavd using advanced engineering methods in microelectronics and CSU said in a statement. That NSF-fundefd work will be led by CSU engineering professor Tom the grant’s principal investigator, joinerd by Stuart Tobet, a biomedicalk sciences professor in the Collegw of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical and Michael De Miranda, an engineering educatiojn professor in the College of Applied Human De Miranda will also work with the graduate studentsw on sharing their research with K-12 teachers in the Poudre, Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 school districts in northeastern Colorado.
A goal of the grant is to help builsd enthusiasm among primary and secondary students for careerwsin science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the disciplines” — at a time when fewer younvg people are entering into such careers, CSU officialzs said.

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