The View From Here 7.24.19

July 24, 2019

science teachers on campus — Ryan Beehler-Evans (left), a teacher from Kirkwood High School, works on a DNA lab activity with Heather Schneider, a teacher from California, under the watchful eye of Doug Chalker, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences. The educators are spending three weeks at Washington University this summer as part of the Master’s in Biology for Science Teachers program. (Photo: Myra Lopez/Institute for School Partnership)

science teachers with Jeffrey Gordon — Teachers in Washington University’s Master’s in Biology for Science Teachers program explore the gut microbiome with pioneering scientist Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, of the School of Medicine, July 16. (Photo: Myra Lopez/Institute for School Partnership)

South 40 underpass painting — Students from the First Year Center paint the underpass to the South 40 on June 28. (Photo: Danny Reise/Washington University)

International Summer Study students mingle — International Summer Study program students mingle with their student peer mentors during the welcome banquet, held July 13 in Umrath Lounge. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

International Summer Study students mingle — International Summer Study program students mingle with their student peer mentors during the welcome banquet, held July 13 in Umrath Lounge. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

students in a lab — Chukwuka Okeke (left) of Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School, Laiken Cash of Farmington High School and Micaela Uy of Mehlville High School spent the week of July 8 doing hands-on research in synthetic biology in the lab of Fuzhong Zhang, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, through the Institute for School Partnership’s Broader Impact program. (Photo: Myra Lopez/Institute for School Partnership)

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