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BIORETS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS
Apply today ! Deadline May 1, 2024
Dates: June 17, 2024 - August 2, 2024 Location: Penn State Harrisburg (In-person and hybrid options available) Housing stipends available During this 7-week full-time, BIORETs research experience, teachers work with Dr. Sairam Rudrabhatla and assisting faculty in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg. Participating teachers also receive professional development virtually by the Penn State Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS) to help translate the experience to the classroom. The proposed Biotechnology and Climate Change research experiences will allow teachers to discover and generate knowledge on a) enhancing yield, nutritional quality and improving disease resistance in crops, b) gene editing of industrial hemp and other crops using CRISPR/Cas9, c) remediating abandoned mine land soils while capturing greenhouse gases, d) treating drug resistant infections with plantderived antibiotics and e) machine learning for plant monitoring. Application Deadline: May 1, 2024 Visit our website to apply! $6,000 Stipend for summer research and curriculum development PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY Must be a secondary STEM teacher with at least 3 years of full-time teaching experience Must commit to implementing a classroom research project during 2024 - 2025 school year
> Info > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dUz2T4Xjk5y2A0IvyBvrnXfysPiJ_uR6/view
> Apply > https://www.csats.psu.edu/forms/registration-ret
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