{"id":1074,"date":"2012-03-06T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2012-03-06T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:46:01","slug":"high-school-scholars-visit-nimbios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/high-school-scholars-visit-nimbios\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Scholars Visit NIMBioS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1076\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1361-smaller.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1076\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1076\" title=\"IMG_1361 smaller\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1361-smaller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1361-smaller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1361-smaller-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Tennessee high school students mix beans in a cup to simulate the outbreak of a disease during their visit to NIMBioS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tennessee high school students visited NIMBioS last week as a part of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/jshs-tn.utk.edu\/index.asp\">Tennessee Junior Science and Humanties Symposium<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/lenhart\" target=\"_blank\">Suzanne Lenhart<\/a>, NIMBioS associate director for education, outreach and diversity, spoke to the students and their teacher sponsors about how NIMBioS researchers apply mathematics to solving some of today&#8217;s biggest biological questions, including how to manage and control diseases. A hands-on activity called &#8220;Outbreak in a Cup,&#8221; led by Kelly Sturner, NIMBioS education and outreach coordinator, generated discussion of important components in a disease model. <a href=\"http:\/\/foodscience.tennessee.edu\/FacultyMembers\/Richards.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Richards<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/handsonclassrooms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hands On<\/a> and a NIMBioS collaborator, introduced students to data visualization software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gapminder<\/a> and led the students in exploring data on malaria around the world. The symposium gave students the opportunity to present their own original scientific research in a public forum, compete for scholarships, and tour labs and facilities on the UT-Knoxville campus and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee high school students visited NIMBioS last week as a part of the annual Tennessee Junior Science and Humanties Symposium. Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS associate director for education, outreach and diversity, spoke to the students and their teacher sponsors about how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/high-school-scholars-visit-nimbios\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}