Glenn Niles This is Me

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   Published on: 7/15/2001   Last Visited: 7/15/2001

   Glenn Niles , assistant professor of education at Alfred University in Alfred , N.Y. , once worked as a public schoolteacher and administrator and he knows first-hand the challenges K-12 science teachers face. Students and teachers are often distracted by such tasks as memorizing distances , yet those tasks are meaningless if students are not provided with additional geographic context and background information , he says.
   
   Combining satellite imagery , Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems , the students will develop multimedia presentations where they will explore the basic scientific explanations of natural phenomena and changes in their region.
   
   This gives students a chance to compare their own region with the regions around them , and to explore the similarities and differences among the regions , Niles says.
   
   The University of Mississippi Medical Center is also active in helping to foster interest in science education for students. In a program called Base Pair , high school students and teachers do cutting-edge biomedical research. Each year , eight to 10 high school juniors and seniors are paired with scientists from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine for a semester. The students participate in basic or clinical research for at least two class periods a day. Before joining the scientists in the laboratories , students prepare by taking a semester class in their high schools , taught by a teacher who has also been through Base Pair.