Public Education
The Laboratory continues to participate in Project WISE, a program to promote the entry of women into science and engineering. The program is run by SUNY Stony Brook and is designed to benefit high school students.
Once again, for the fourth year, the Laboratory hosted a group of Japanese exchange students and their teachers who were visiting Cold Spring Harbor High School in July. The Laboratory also continues to host the West Side School Science Nights, which are now open to all local elementary schools. Lectures this year included of Leemor Joshua-Tor talking about "Proteins in 3-D" in January; Michael Hengartner discussing "A Matter of Life and Death: How Cells Die, and Why That's A Good Thing" in March; and Jean Philippe Vielle-Calzada on "Fertilization Tales: Doing It With or Without Tails" in May.
The "Great Moments in DNA Science" lecture series is still a big hit with high school audiences. In April, Linda Van Aelst talked about "The Role of Cell Signaling in Cancer." In May, Jan Witkowski spoke on "Ian Had a Little Lamb: The Cloning of Dolly," and Karel Svoboda presented "Imaging Neurons in Action."