Kate Chiappinelli - New Student Director for YSP

YSP has a new student director...
The Young Scientist Program welcomes Kate Chiappinelli as the new YSP student director. Kate graduated from Haverford College in 2007 with a B.S. in Biology and Music. She is a fourth year student in the Developmental Biology Program and works in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Goodfellow, where her research involves investigating epigenetic alterations in endometrial (uterine) cancer. As a YSP volunteer for the past several years, Kate has been most involved in the Summer Focus Program as an instructor for our writing course. We look forward to Kate's leadership over the 2010-11 academic year.

Also, a BIG thanks to our outgoing student director, Chris Affolter for helping YSP to continue growing and expanding!!

Family Med Program

For a fourth year, YSP and the St. Louis Science Center are once again partnering up to offer the Family Med Program. This program offers 4 hands-on medical training sessions for children, 5th grade and older and their families during Fall 2010. Participants of the Family Med Program learn about human anatomy & physiology as well as disease through demonstrations provided by the YSP Anatomy team.

We will kick off the program on Saturday, August 28 with demonstrations related to the Heart. Additional sessions will be held on September 25 (Respiratory system), October 23 (Digestive system), and November 20 (Brain and Nervous system).

http://www.slsc.org/Just4Kids/FamilyScienceSeries.aspx

YSP Summer Symposium and Awards Ceremony

The YSP summer programs concluded their summer on Friday, August 6th with a symposium and awards ceremony. Teachers from the Teacher and Researcher Partnership and returning 08 Summer Focus students presented their research during a poster presentation session sponsored by the BiomedRap Summer Program. That evening Summer Focus participants gave 5 minute talks about their lab research project. The evening's events concluded with a banquet and award ceremony to honor all students, teachers, their families, and of course the YSP volunteers!

YSP Summer Programs

This summer we welcomed 16 high school students and 3 science teachers as participants in our 2010 YSP Summer Programs:

Summer Focus Participants
Kyle Bailey – Parkway West High School
Hope Bretscher – Parkway West High School
Xavier du Maine – Metro High School
Quintessa Gibbs – Cleveland NJROTC High School
Jay Gill – Crossroads High School
Suhani Goyal – Parkway Central High School
Christopher Jones – McKinley Classical Academy
Abigail Keel – Metro High School
Lorri Leong – Central VPA High School
Adam Mann – Ali – Cleveland NJROTC High School
Mai Nguyen – Gateway High School
La’Sheka Nicholson – Soldan High School
Renetra Osun – Soldan High School
LaDonna Patterson – McCluer North High School
Morgan Spears – Metro High School
Cara Schornak – Granite City High School

Teacher and Researcher Partnership Program
RoseMarie Goble – Beaumont High School
Renee Ganley – Busch AAA Middle School
Cates Mallaney – Clyde C. Miller Career Academy

YSP 2010 Spring Nano Medical School Features Dr. Arnold Bullock

The YSP Spring Nano Medical School held on Monday, March 29^th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. featured a talk given by Dr. Arnold Bullock entitled “The Male Organ - Not the Bigger the Better: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy”. Dr. Arnold Bullock is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Urologic Surgery. He specializes in prostate cancer and urologic surgery, including treatment of an enlarged prostate (BPH). He is recognized as one the of area's Top Doctors. Dr. Bullock has done research in racial differences affecting prostate cancer screening tests and using lower PSA cutoffs for African-American men.