Articles on the strategic partnership between Washington University and Brittany Woods Middle School in University City were featured on the front page of the December 2013 issue of the U. City Pride newspaper, a publication of the School District of University City, Missouri. Read the December 2013 issue of U. City Pride.
(November 26, 2013 by Jessica Bock, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, photo by J.B. Forbes)For a lesson about the components of soil, fifth-grade science teacher Sara Berghoff could have read definitions out of a textbook. Instead, she had her students dig in. Her class at Jamestown Elementary combed through plastic containers of soil. In groups of four, […]
For several years ISP Faculty Fellow Joe Culver, PhD, associate professor of radiology, and his colleagues in the Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology (PEN) at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have offered a free after-school field trip to Washington University for middle school students to explore the topic of nanotechnology. With support from the PEN Skills […]
The WUSTL Newsroom story “Closing the gap: How one school district went about fixing standardized science test scores” by Leslie Gibson McCarthy was published with permission by the Missouri Mathematics and Science Coalition as part of their spring 2014 newsletter. See the story as it appears in the Missouri STEM Connection. The Missouri Mathematics and […]
Long-term collaboration between Hazelwood School District and Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership showing measurable progress (November 11, 2013 by Leslie Gibson McCarthy) A unique, long-term partnership between a university and an underserved suburban school district in Missouri is showing eye-popping, unprecedented success in elementary and middle school science test scores — and in the […]
Teens in the Tyson Environmental Research Fellowships (TERF) program presented the results of summer ecological research at the WUSTL Fall 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 26. The TERFers braved ticks, chiggers, and poison ivy during four weeks working in the field alongside university faculty, staff, post-doctoral researchers, and undergraduates at Tyson Research Center. The TERF […]
“For three years the weather has been splendid for us when we are at the Missouri State Fair,” says Diane Pilla, MySci project coordinator for the Institute for School Partnership. The MySci Investigation Station was part of the Science Street Fair exhibition Aug. 10 and an estimated 1,060 people explored the unique space. The Investigation […]
The Each One Teach One (EOTO) program at Washington University was highlighted in a story published by the St. Louis American on Thursday, June 6, 2013. Amy O’Brien, ISP program coordinator and school partnership liaison, works with the EOTO program and is quoted in the story. Read the entire story by Bridjes O’Neil at the […]
Over the past 22 years, nearly 400 students at Washington University have spent their summer prior to freshman year getting to know more about research through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-sponsored Summer Scholars in Biology and Biomedical Research (SSBBR) program. High school seniors apply to this fellowship when they are applying for admission to Washington […]
What would you do if you were given a box filled with straws, pipe cleaners, rubber bands, clothespins, string, dental floss, tape and a funnel? More than 30 area high school students who participated in Explore Engineering June 6 used those items and a few others to design a functional prosthetic hand that could throw […]