NSF Presidential Award Webinar

Dominique Evans-Bye,Helen Chun,Mindy Berman,Steven Oppenheimer,Alvalyn Lundgren

doi:10.22158/fet.v5n1p9

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of a National Science Foundation Webinar on Supporting Student Research with methods of relevance to applied research applications. This Webinar featured invited Presidential Award (PAESMEM) winners Dominique Evans-Bye and Steve Oppenheimer and showcases selections done by K-12 students that are every bit as good as many from university level research programs. K-12 research is often belittled as not real research but this concept will be negated by reading the applied research presented here. Interesting data on ejecta pattern on Martian crater, adhesion peptides binding to hydroxyapatite, and population dynamics of Collembolans are presented here. Dominique Evans-Bye, a high school teacher, is one of two US Presidential Award winners in the area of student research in science, of hundreds at the university level. This paper will show why she was selected to receive this honor and what other teachers can do to lift the level of student research in their classes.

Highlights

The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) is a Presidential award established by the United States White House in 1995 (Note 1)
The program is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Note 2) on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) (Note 3) to reward outstanding mentoring by individuals and organizations
The research question that we investigated for this project was: “Has the ejecta pattern around the double crater in stamp V15272005 been modified by erosion?” We found our research question interesting because as we were looking over Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) images, we noticed a double crater, which means there were two impacts

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The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) is a Presidential award established by the United States White House in 1995 (Note 1). Students conduct their research at their schools and homes, and present their reviewed research in poster form at the symposium, held at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where they receive medals and certificates recognizing their efforts. This really inspires them to continue in science. He was editor of Elsevier’s international journal Acta Histochemica, affiliated with the International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry He has taught, conducted research, and worked with middle and high school students and teachers at CSUN for 48 years (Note 8). In the third and final stage, the loose debris will move and slide into the crater’s walls

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