SEP hosts 14th summer session for teachers; open house is July 28

Brief

School may be out for the summer, but the learning isn't over for 27 science teachers attending the Science Education Partnership's 14th session, which began on Monday. After a three-day immersion in the basics of molecular biology, each teacher will spend a week with a scientist mentor working in a research laboratory at the center or one of five local partner institutions: the University of Washington, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Pacific Northwest Research Institute and the corporate biotechnology firms Amgen (formerly Immunex) and ZymoGenetics, Inc.

Participants will exhibit projects based on their experiences at a poster session during an open house on the session's last day, July 28. All center staff are invited to attend the poster session, which will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in B1-072/74/76.

Since the Science Education Partnership began in 1991, more than 300 teachers have participated and the program has touched the lives of more than 130,000 students. SEP receives direct financial support from Fred Hutchinson and donors, notably, the Florence Kilworth Foundation. The program has received major support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1994. Additional support, for activities such as the science-kit-loan program, has come from The Washington Mutual Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation and Amgen.

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