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The University of Nebraska
Lincoln has been awarded a $325,000
grant from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute for “Wonderwi.se:
Women in Science Learning Series.”
Wonderwise is an inquiry-based
multimedia learning tool composed
of five educational science kits devel
oped for fourth to sixth graders. Each
kir provides a week-long science unit
focusing on one prominent female
scientist and one science topic. It also
includes video field trips with hands
on, multi-disciplinary science activi
ties.
The grant will be used to help
teacners and expand science opportu
nities for young people. This is the
second time the program has received
a grant from the institute; the first was
five years ago for $500,000.
“We’ve been testing and working
with teachers across the state for the
past five years,” said Judy Diamond,
assistant director for public programs
at the Museum and director of the
Wonderwise project. “With the new
grant we’ll launch an on-line version
of the project, where we can train
teachers over the satellite or on-line,
as well as support a new kit which
will focus on the prairie.”
The kits are designed to integrate
literature, science and math curricu
iums and bring women scientists into
the classroom. Diamond said the kits
will be distributed nationally by the
end of the summer
Current topics include:
♦ “Sea Otter Biologist,” fea
turing Brenda Ballachey, project
leader for the Sea Otter Oil Spill
Studies Project for the National
Biological Service;
♦ “Pollen Detective,” with
Margaret Bollick, curator of botany
and associate professor at UNL;
♦ “Rainforest Ecologist,” with
Janalee Paige Caldwell, who worics
with the ecology of tropical amphib
ians;
♦ “Parasite Sleuth,” featuring
Judy Sakanari, a parasitologist who
studies the genetics of tiny worms
called nermatodes; and
♦ “African Plant Explorer ”
featuring African-American biologi
cal anthropologist Fatimah Jackson.
The Howard Hughes Medica
Institute, the nation’s largest philan
thropic organization, awarded $8 mil -
lion in four-year grants to 45 muse
urns and other institutions across tn^
country. The Wonderwise program
received the fourth-highest total. The
awards were made from 239 propos
als submitted by 590 institutions
invited to participate in the competi
tion. Recipients include 33 museums,
eight botanical gardens, three zoos
and one aquarium.
Engineering students, teachers at UNL
from Staff Reports
Twenty-four students and three
teachers from Nebraska high schools
have been awarded internships with
the Nebraska Research Initiative
Engineering Research Centers at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The interns will spend July 20-25
with Engineering Research Centers
researchers learning about lasers,
computers, electronic materials,
infrastructure, the environment and
nontraditional manufacturing.
Each student intern receives a fel
lowship that includes room and board
in university residence halls and an
honorarium of $250. The teachers
receive honoraiiums of $750.
Activities planned for the interns
include creating World Wide Web
pagd$, conducting balloon tests of the
atmqsphere, creating a laser light
show, sampling wetlands soils, study
ing engine emissions and creating
laser-generated
manufacturing prototypes.
This is the fifth year the centers
have offered the internships, which
attracted 105 applicants this year. The
six centers were created in 1988 with
funding from the state legislature's
Nebraska Research Initiative pro
gram. Their goals are to conduct
research applicable to state industry,
accelerate the flow of technology
from laboratories to users and
increase economic development n
Nebraska.
The teacher interns are Sara
Hartzell of Hallam, a teacher at
Wilber-Clatonia High School; Jon
Mayo, who teaches at Omaha ?
Brownell-Talbot College Preparatory
School; and Janette Payne of Kearney
High School. Hie teachers will spend
time in each of the centers.
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