Professors grant aimed at inspiring high school students

Abstract

For the past three years, high school students from the International Academy have been participating in research in the lab of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ferman Chavez. After witnessing how interested the students became through their work in the lab, Chavez wanted to find a way to spread that interest in chemistry to other high school students. In early 2008, Chavez was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER awards to fund a program to do just that.