Each local event was uniquely designed by the APS member and the teacher. For example, some events had an APS member or two visiting small classrooms, others had lab group members engaging with multiple classes in a day, while a few had large assemblies and a crew of volunteer scientists and teachers. A couple of innovative events had students in the upper grades peer teaching younger kids in earlier grade levels. Presentations, discussions, and engaging hands-on activities ranged from career talks, to learning about the use of animals in research, measuring heart and breathing rates, demonstrating animal hearts or organs, exercising muscles, and even having multiple stations for learning different aspects of health, exercise, nutrition, and physiology.
Event sites received guidance in organizing and planning events from the APS Education Office. Students received free educational resources from the APS, such as physiology-related comic books, career brochures, and promotional memorabilia, such as squeezy anatomical hearts and drawstring sportpacks. The team of presenting volunteers received PhUn Week 2009 t-shirts, while APS member and lead teacher coordinators also received grocery tote bags with the PhUn Week 2009 logo for their work in planning their local PhUn Week events.
Plans are underway for PhUn Week 2010 during the week of November 1, 2010. For the past several years, the PhUn Week theme highlighted the physiology of exercise and health, but APS members are welcome to focus on their own area of physiology. For more information and to start planning an event in your home town, join us at the PhUn Week training session on Sunday, April 25 during EB 2010 (9:00-11:00 am, Anaheim Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon AB). Visit the PhUn Week section at: http://www.the-aps.org/education/eb2010.htm and reserve your spot for a free continental breakfast and a chance to win a gift. For notification of program updates on the www.PhUnWeek.org website, send an email to: phunweek@the-aps.org. For more information, contact Mel Limson in the Education Office at mlimson@the-aps.org.
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| At an event coordinated by APS member Jeff Falcone, University of Louisville, and science educator Margaret Shain, middle school children were first trained in running multiple activity stations around the school’s gymnasium. The middle schoolers then worked with small groups of kindergarteners or first graders. | High school students huddle around a dissection demonstration by graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus at events coordinated by APS members Nelson Escobales and Jose Garcia Colon. | Kathy Strader, science teacher at Southeast Career Technical Academy School in Las Vegas, NV, guides a group of students investigating the effect of blood flow occlusion on muscle force production and fatigue using handgrip dynamometer. APS member John Young, from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, coordinated the event. | APS member Michael Ryan, University of Mississippi Medical Center, showing sphygmomanometer to a fourth grade class and getting ready to demonstrate taking blood pressure on teacher, Sharon Ryan, at Northwest Rankin Elementary School in Flowood, MS. |
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| Volunteers recruited by APS member Andrea Gwosdow of Gwosdow Associates engage children in listening to a pulse for measuring blood pressure or breathing to learn about lung capacity and respiration. For the third consecutive year, the Boston Children’s Museum hosted a PhUn Day event with multiple hands-on activities monitored by APS members, scientists, and graduate or medical and health professional students in the Boston area. | |||
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The APS, on behalf of the Porter Physiology Development Committee, is pleased to congratulate the following awardees of the APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship Awards to attend Experimental Biology 2010:
For more information about the APS Minority Travel Fellowship Awards, contact Brooke Bruthers, Minority Programs Coordinator, at bbruthers@the-aps.org or visit http://www.the-aps.org/education/minority_prog/stu_fellows/minority_tvl/ov_mt.htm.
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| Karina Acevedo-Torres, San Juan
Bautista School of Med. Jinae Bartlett, California State Univ., Long Beach Layne Bettini, Univ. of New Mexico Paulo Caceres, Henry Ford Hospital Leroy Cooper, Brown Univ. Mark Cunningham, Univ. of Florida College of Medicine Lincoln Edwards, Loma Linda Univ. Zarine Garcia, Colorado State Univ. Luther Gill, Univ. of Florida Shea Gilliam-Davis, Wake Forest Univ. School of Med. Marcela Herrera, Henry Ford Hospital Jessica Ibarra, Univ. of Texas HSC, San Antonio Brandiese Jacobs, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Erin Keen-Rhinehart, Susquehanna Univ. Aisha Kelly-Cobbs, Medical College of Georgia Rasheed Lawal, Univ. of Louisville Anna Leal, Penn State Univ. College of Medicine Santiago Lorenzo, Univ. of Oregon |
Brandon Macias, Texas A&M Univ. Tanecia Mitchell, Univ. of Arkansas for Med. Sciences Clintoria Richards-Williams, Emory Univ./Atlanta VA Medical Center Edelmarie Rivera-De Jesús, Ponce School of Medicine Natalie Rodriguez, Arizona State Univ. Alexandr Samocha, Univ. of Pennsylvania Ana Silva, Medical College of Georgia Rebecca Torres, Univ. of South Alabama Carmen Troncoso Brindeiro, Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr. Johana Vallejo-Elias, Midwestern Univ.-Arizona Osteopathic School of Medicine Jose Pablo Vazquez-Medina, Univ. of California Merced Jose Viscarra, Univ. of California, Merced Kedra Wallace, Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center Annie Whitaker, Louisiana State Univ. Health Science Center-NO Nichelle Whitlock, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville Holly Williams, Emory Univ. Alencia Woodard-Grice, Vanderbilt Univ. |
APS
Presents Awards for the Best Physiology Project at
Local Middle and High School Science Fairs
Any APS member who participates as a judge in a local or regional science fair at an elementary, middle, or high school is eligible to apply and receive an APS award packet. For more information, visit: http://www.the-aps.org/education/sciencefair/index.htm or contact Scarletta Whitsett (swhitsett@the-aps.org) in the APS Education Office.
Brooke Lyonnais, an eighth grader at Fontainebleau Junior High in Mandeville, LA, received an APS award for the best physiology project at the Mandeville Middle School Science Fair. APS member Jason Gardner of the Louisiana State Univ. Health Sciences Center was a judge on behalf of the APS and presented Ms. Lyonnais with her award. The title of Brooke’s project is “Do You Breathe What I Breathe.” Her teacher and sponsor is Diane Rabalais. Brooke also won the Health and Medicine category and will advance to the Regional Competition held in Hammond, LA.
Taylor Mackenzie Clark, a junior at Rio Rancho High School in Rio Rancho, NM, received an APS award for the best physiology project at the Rio Rancho High Research Expo. APS member Jessica Snow of the Univ. of New Mexico was a judge on behalf of the APS and presented Ms. Clark with her award. The title of Taylor’s project is “The Effect of Over the Counter Medications on the Heart Rate of Daphnia Magna.” Her teacher and sponsor is Scotia Kurowski.
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| The best physiology project was presented to Brooke Lyonnais at the Mandeville Middle School Science Fair. APS member Jason D. Gardner presented the award. |