Three SEP teachers receive grants

Brief

Three high-school teachers in the center's Science Education Partnership (SEP) were awarded a $10,000 grant to support student research projects based on cancer investigations at Fred Hutchinson. The Toyota TAPESTRY grant program, the largest science-teacher grant program in the nation, awarded the grant. The program is sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. and administered by the National Science Teachers Association.

Laurie Greco Matthews, Jessica Casbere and Marcy McCorriston, all teachers at Eastside Catholic High School, will use the grant to provide 10th-grade students with hands-on investigative experiences that will allow them to develop a critical understanding of cancer cells.

SEP is a yearlong professional development program for secondary school science teachers in Washington. Directed by Dr. Nancy Hutchison, the program establishes long-term partnerships between teachers and the scientific research community. SEP sponsors a summer workshop that includes a week during which teachers work closely with a scientist mentor in a research laboratory. During the school year, teachers have access to an equipment-kit loan program so that students have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge biomedical research tools.

The Howard Hughes Medical Foundation, the Amgen Foundation and the center provide major support for SEP.

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