Professor takes science to area elementary school pupils

Posted on August 19, 2010 |

• Middlebury
• education
• Middlebury College

By Andrea Suozzo

MIDDLEBURY — Most elementary school students would not have the slightest idea what to do in a college biology lab.

But seeing his 4- and 7-year-old daughters in the lab was exactly what inspired Middlebury College biology professor Jeremy Ward to apply for a National Science Foundation grant to teach genetic biology to schoolchildren in Addison County.

“They don’t know that they’re not supposed to be able to do it,” said Ward of his daughters. “When I watch (them) in here and say ‘Do this,’ they go and do it.”

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