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My Experience as a GK-12 Fellow

StudentThe University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) conducted a four-year program with the New Hanover County School system to improve science education in the middle schools. A select group of science graduate students (GK-12 Fellows) from programs in chemistry, biology, earth sciences, and marine sciences served as classroom resource persons for middle school teachers and students. The Science and Mathematics Education Center served as the management hub for the project and the liaison between UNCW and the New Hanover County School system.. more

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The Fantastic Four Column

You and your students will enjoy reading these Fun Fascinating Faculty Feedback columns written by UNCW scientist to address some of the current issues in science that impact us all.  Our first F4 columnist is Dr. Jack Hall.  Find out what he has to say about the wild weather we've been having "lately".


S.C.O.R.E. science points with our new Science Community Outreach Resources in Education program.

Our Science Literature Database is up and running.  Search it for a good book to read.

Meet Dr. Sridhar Varadarajan an organic/medicinal chemist researching DNA damaging compounds.

The Science and Mathematics Education Center is pleased to maintain this website as an archival repository of materials developed during our NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project.  While some "news" is dated, the lessons, Science Literature Database and faculty SCORE posters remain valuable tools for the science classroom. 

The material on this site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0139171

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