April 17, 2008 - The winners of the 2008 Student Impact Awards for their research and outreach activities in Science Education presented their posters at Visible Thinking Day.

March 20, 2008 - Duke's LEAP (Launch into Education About Pharmacology), a science enrichment program for local high school students, has been highlighted on WUNC radio. Click here to hear WUNC's Rose Hoban describe her visit to a LEAP class, and her story about LEAP students' research.

March 16, 2008 - Durham Public School students & teachers are invited to apply to the "tranSCRIPT: Genomics on TV" program, offered by Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP). The program, which will run on May 17th, helps high school students explore the science (and fiction) behind the plots of popular television shows. To learn more and to apply, click here.

January 30, 2008 - Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Director of the Duke Center for Science Education recently appeared on YouTube. In her interview with the Duke News team, she shows a piece of her 3D animation created to show how drugs like nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana work in the brain. The video, titled "Animated Neuroscience...." is used in classrooms at the high school and college level all over the US. Take a look by clicking here!

March 10, 2008 - The Pharmacology Education Partnership (PEP), a high school curriculum developed by faculty in the Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology and at the NC School of Science & Math, was assessed nationally and published in the Sept.28, 2007 issue of Science Magazine. Details on the paper available here.