Outreach
Long-Term Commitment to Engage Next Generation of Diverse Scientists
Long-Term Commitment to Engage Next Generation of Diverse Scientists

STEAM-TRIO-SLU 2022 - Introduced First-Gen diverse TRIO-high school and middle school students from inner St. Louis city to the scientific research process and engaged them in a small protein synthesis activity.

Summer 2021-STARS program UMSL-SLU (High School Students and Teachers as Research Scientists). Soham Saraf and Angelina Spencer (STARS program) and another high school student (Kanthi) from Oregon joined us for a 6-week fun and rigorous remote research training in protein modeling.
2018-2019: Milwaukee SMART Team Mentoring for High School Students to develop 3D-printed models of our protein (GRAFTON HIGH SCHOOL), at MSOE- Miwlaukee School of Engineering, Centre for Biomolecular Modeling.
2018-2019: Milwaukee SMART Team Mentoring for High School Students to develop 3D-printed models of our protein (GRAFTON HIGH SCHOOL), at MSOE- Miwlaukee School of Engineering, Centre for Biomolecular Modeling.
2017-2018: Milwaukee SMART Team Mentoring for High School Students to develop 3D-printed models of our protein (CUDAHY HIGH SCHOOL), at MSOE- Miwlaukee School of Engineering, Centre for Biomolecular Modeling.
Cudahy High School Students (Milwaukee) Lab Visit: Students discussed research with Daniella and Jonah Elliff (left), cell culture techniques with Courtney Jungers (middle) and presented the 3D-model that they designed with Dr. Origanti (right):
Cudahy High School Students (Milwaukee) Lab Visit: Students discussed research with Daniella and Jonah Elliff (left), cell culture techniques with Courtney Jungers (middle) and presented the 3D-model that they designed with Dr. Origanti (right):

Art with Science, 2016- M-Steam Program (Upward Bound Students)
Marquette University
Marquette University
M-STEAM is a science outreach program initiated and coordinated by Dr. Sofia Origanti and Dr. Edwin Antony from the Department of Biological Sciences at Marquette University in collaboration with Ms. Lynne Shumow of the Haggerty Museum of Art and the Upward Bound Program that prepares low income and first generation high school students to enter into college (http://www.marquette.edu/eop/upwardbound.shtml).
The goal of M-STEAM is to expose high school students to scientific research and to help breakdown scientific concepts into visual representations rendered through an artistic viewpoint. This is also used as a tool to help students understand and appreciate the process of scientific discovery. Students work with local artists and the art director at Haggerty museum to create their art, which is then presented to the public. More information can be found at : (http://m-steam.weebly.com)
The goal of M-STEAM is to expose high school students to scientific research and to help breakdown scientific concepts into visual representations rendered through an artistic viewpoint. This is also used as a tool to help students understand and appreciate the process of scientific discovery. Students work with local artists and the art director at Haggerty museum to create their art, which is then presented to the public. More information can be found at : (http://m-steam.weebly.com)
March for Science
Marquette Biology, 2017
Marquette Biology, 2017
Biotechnology Summer Academy (High School Students), 2014
Utah State University
Katelin Day (North Sanpete High School, Mt. Pleasant, UT)
Isaac Levya (Academy for Math, Engineering and Science, Salt Lake, UT)
Utah State University
Katelin Day (North Sanpete High School, Mt. Pleasant, UT)
Isaac Levya (Academy for Math, Engineering and Science, Salt Lake, UT)