Abstract
When Gina MacDonald, an assistant professor of chemistry at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., saw a group of deaf teenagers in a local shopping mall, she was startled to realize that she never saw deaf students in her biochemistry classes. Shortly afterward, MacDonald was recruiting high-school science teachers to be part of a summer research program in chemistry at James Madison sponsored by the National Science Foundation. MacDonald decided to contact Virginia School for the Deaf & Blind in nearby Staunton to see if a teacher there would be interested in doing summer research in her lab. It wasn't very carefully thought out in advance, MacDonald admits, but her telephone call is reaping results. In 1998, Michael B. Marzolf, a science teacher at Virginia School for the Deaf & Blind who is deaf, spent five weeks in MacDonald's lab. Last summer, he returned for a second session, this time joined by Dorothy Wynne, who teaches ...
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