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APS Members and Teachers/Undergraduates: Making the Connection The APS Education Office maintains a Contact List of APS members willing to serve as a research host and/or contact person for applicants for Summer Research Fellowships for undergraduate students and high school and middle school teachers. If you can serve as a contact person and/or summer research host, please sign up at www.the-aps.org/cgi-bin/Education/signup.htm. Please note, even if you have been on the list in previous years, we ask that you review your contact information and indicate your willingness to stay on the list. The American Physiological Society's Summer Research Fellowships
Why should you be a research host? Comments from APS members... "I have hosted two teachers. In both cases, I believe my lab received much more than we gave. We were the beneficiaries of fresh new insights into our research questions and boundless enthusiasm on the part of both teachers, and I also learned a great deal more about science education at the high school level that has helped me in my dealings with undergraduate students. I have kept in contact with both teachers and have visited one of their schools, and hosted their students in the lab for science fair projects. Overall, this was a truly rewarding experience." Kim E. Barrett, UCSD Medical Center "The enthusiasm of the teacher to learn and excitement of discovery gave a refreshing boost to the laboratory." Franklyn G. Knox, Mayo Clinic and Foundation "I've encouraged researchers to host a teacher for several reasons: It gives back to the community. It frequently involves them in the education of their own children. It makes a teacher feel like a true professional, a scientist. It can only make our educational system better, contributing to the professional development of a teacher. You can benefit from the exposure to a professional whose pedagogy is different from your own. Finally, there is nothing like the feeling of having an impact not on one individual, but also on his or her students. [For our teacher,] her exposure to the program... reinvigorated her, and reconfirmed her commitment to teaching and students. The pre college teachers and students affected by the program are tomorrow's scientists and engineers. At the very least, they are the educated electorate voting on the legislators who pass the NIH budget." George E. Tempel, Medical University of South Carolina "The short-term advantage was being able to work with someone with a sharp mind who came into the lab with all the fresh questions and viewpoints of a beginning graduate student, but also with the knowledge and maturity of a colleague. A second short-term advantage was that the research teacher facilitated interactions with the summer research students, undergraduate and medical students, also present in the lab. The long-term advantage has been that the research teacher has been a doorway to approach other teachers and high school students in the region. Our Health Science Center has often worked with the teacher to set up and conduct local workshops and programs for other teachers in the region. She and the other teachers have in turn provided a way to reach middle and high school students, hopefully interesting them further in the biological sciences." Norman W. Weisbrodt, University of Texas, Houston Medical School APS members: Click here to add your name to the APS Researcher Contact List.
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