PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
Photographers and reporters are welcome to attend the annual Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science visit that will bring more than 80 high school science enthusiasts to CU-Boulder for a first-hand look at a major research university on Thursday, Feb. 24.
The young scientists, all members of the Junior Academy of Science, will hear presentations from some of the campus's leading faculty and will visit several University of Colorado at Boulder research facilities.
The visit will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a presentation by Engineering Professor Kristi Anseth, whose research team has developed new techniques and materials to promote healing of severe bone fractures and cartilage regeneration. Her talk at 9 a.m. is titled "If I Only Had a New . . . Progress and Promise in Tissue Engineering Research."
Â鶹ÒùÔº will break into groups at 10:15 a.m. for a short tour of the campus, and will visit research laboratories including Professor Margaret Murnane's lab. Her work with ultra high-speed lasers may one day be used in development of a tabletop x-ray microscope for biological imaging at super-high resolution. Other students will visit research labs and workshops in chemistry, space sciences, the Colorado Space Grant College and BioServe.
The day will wrap up with lunch and a Fiske Planetarium presentation.
This is the fifth year the visit has been hosted by the CU-Boulder office of Community Relations. The Colorado-Wyoming Junior Academy of Science is an honor research society for high school scientists, and part of a national association of science academies.
Download a schedule of events(pdf).
For more information please contact Erin Frazier of CU-Boulder Community Relations at (303) 492-8384, or via email at erin.frazier@colorado.edu.