Classroom Event

While in town for a meeting of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Ting will visit Horace Furness High School in Philadelphia to discuss genetics with students.

Gill was invited back to Options Employment & Education Services in Hartford, CT, to deliver a program series for high school students. From May 7 through June 4, she will present a different PGED lesson - starting with DNA, Crime, & Law Enforcement! About the lesson: The collection and analysis of DNA is an important […]

Gill was invited back to Options Employment & Education Services in Hartford, CT, to deliver a program series for high school students. From May 7 through June 4, she will present a different PGED lesson each week. The second lesson is ‘How Does Ancestry Testing Work?’ About the lesson: Technological developments in genetics have enabled […]

Gill was invited back to Options Employment & Education Services in Hartford, CT, to deliver a program series for high school students. From May 7 through June 4, she will present a different PGED lesson. The third lesson is ‘Personalized Medicine’. About the lesson: Personalized medicine, also referred to as precision medicine, holds great promise […]

Gill was invited back to Options Employment & Education Services in Hartford, CT, to deliver a program series for high school students. From May 7 through June 4, she will present a different PGED lesson. The fourth lesson is ‘Genome Editing & the Environment: Engineering the World Around Us’. About the lesson: Advances in genetic […]

Gill was invited back to Options Employment & Education Services in Hartford, CT, to deliver a program series for high school students. From May 7 through June 4, she will present a different PGED lesson. The fifth and final lesson is ‘Genome Editing & CRISPR’. About the lesson: Techniques to easily modify DNA, known as […]

A presentation on best practices for science engagement with a focus on science-faith dialogue.  Rob will discuss both his work at DoSER and at PGED, and lead the class in the Share Your Stance activity.

Marnie & Ting are looking forward to returning to Boston Day & Evening Academy, an alternative high school in the Boston Public Schools. They’ll be visiting with students as part of PGED alum Fabienne Mondesir and Julie Park’s Project Month class “Grey’s at BDEA” on anatomy and physiology.

This spring, we’re looking forward to our professional development workshops with all 55 biology teachers in Worcester Public Schools. As a part of our collaboration, we are teaming up with a high school biology teacher to design a new classroom activity focused on pedigree creation and analysis. The activity encourages students to use a roleplay […]