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Size Matters! Smaller is Better
Students in Grades 11-12

Join Dr. Daniel Gianola for a discussion on how engineering materials deform and fail. Engineers constantly think about how structures (such as bridges) and materials (such as steels or plastics) might possibly fracture or fail.  We will interactively investigate the characteristics that make a material stiff, strong, squishy, weak, elastic, or plastic and how the atomic-level structure and...

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Superbug
Grades 9-12

Join Dr. Peter N. Wenger, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Associate Professor in the School of UMDNJ Public Health for a discussion of the PBS NOVA program Rx for Survival: Rise of the Superbug. Students should be familiar with the documentary (at minimum, the portions about resistant germs and viruses) and should...

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The Race for the Double Helix
Grades 9-12

Join Dr. Dr. Chi-hua Chiu, Assistant Professor in the department of Anthropology at Kent State University and Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University for a discussion of the scientific, political and ethical issues related to the discovery of the double helix. The discovery involved the rivalries of the two teams of scientists attempting to discover the nature...

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Wetting in Nature
Students in Grades 11-12

Wetting refers to the study of how a liquid deposited on a solid surface spreads out.  The phenomenon is relevant to numerous industrial areas and plays an important role in nature.  Join Dr. Daeyeon Lee for a discussion of the fundamental aspects of wetting. Dr. Lee will introduce the concept of contact angle (the angle at which the liquid-vapor interface (boundary) meets the solid surface),...

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