Dear Colleagues: The purpose of this message is to identify those who might tbe interested in being panel experts on an exciting new educational website currently under development at Purdue University. The website will be part of the VIP program or "Virtual Interactive Partnership" which will link scientists (YOU) with kids of all ages. The project will hopefully be funded partly by an NIH grant that I will be submitting in March and other projects we have already underway or planned. I would like to identify the experts now, and include your names as part of the experts panels in my NIH grant. To participate in the program, you would agree to answer questions in your area of expertise at most once a week but probably less . Your answers to kids questions, will be edited by my scientific staff and appropriately managed to provide rapid responces to kids scientific needs. The end results will become part of a giant knowledge base that is constantly updated. It will be part of a program to provide quality science on the web. In addition I am looking for colleagues who can comment on new biomedical discoveries in a manner similar to newspaper reports - but include the scientific reference. People might be prepared to be responsible for a particualr journal for example, and write a daily/weekly/monthy paragraph on new discoveries. The VIP project would partner with the BioScope Initiative - a $2 million education project well underway in our group where we are developing quality biology education material primarily for high school students. We are developing a web journal which would allow students to publish observations, and experimental results - after some review process. These experiences are designed to allow students to participate in the discovery process and help them understand how science affects their daily lives. We want to make science more interesting and the web is a great medium for this. If you are interested in participating in this project as a panel expert, reviewer, "reporter" or in some other capacity, please let me know. We need colleagues who have all levels and areas of expertise. If you are a technician and consider yourself good at what you do, please consider how you can particpate. Clinicians can help kids understand the link between disease and basic science, scientists can help explain mechanisms of action, and educators can help disseminate the information. We will form people into response teams and we will create some order out of what might at first appear to be chaos. You will always work with a team so you won't be out there all by yourself!!! To make the process easier for you I have created a web page which you can fill in in 2 minutes (probably less!!). Please consider how you can become part of this potentially exciting and valuable program to create student-scientist partnerships. We cover so many areas of science as cytometrists, I hope that many of you will be interested in participating. The web page is at: http://www.bioscope.org/vip.htm or you can find the VIP banner on our main page or the cytometry email index page. I will give many more details of this new educational initiative at our Education Workshop at Montpellier. Thanks for your interest in our kids education. Go ahead, make your day - join the group!! Give our kids what you never had! Paul <nofill> J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of Immunopharmacology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1515 (Ph) (765) 494-0757 Fax (765) 494-0517 jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu http://www.cyto.purdue.edu http://www.bioscope.org
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