(June 6, 2007)
– The
relationship between the health of the Sarasota Bay and the
health of the people who live by it is the central focus of this
year's summer enrichment PUSH/SUCCESS Program for 17 middle- and
high-school students from Sarasota and Manatee counties being
held over two weeks at New College of Florida.
The program
this year, "Relating the Health of the Bay to Human Health,"
runs June 3-16, with all classes held in the Pritzker Marine
Laboratory at New College. A graduation ceremony, with students
presenting projects, will take place Saturday, June 16, at 2
p.m. in Pritzker.
Science
sessions are being on such topics as insects and nutritional
study, bacteria and beaches, red tide and other harmful algal
blooms, food webs, predators and prey, seafood and health, water
sampling, taste genetics and populations, epidemiology and other
health topics. The students will conduct algal and insect
experiments, and among planned field trips is a visit to the
Dattoli Cancer Center.
The
Preparing Unique Students for Healthcare career program is for
students in grades 9-11 and the Students United to Create
Culturally and Educationally Successful Situations program is
for students in grades 6-8. Both programs, which run
concurrently, are aimed at students interested in health-related
careers – especially underserved, disadvantaged, rural, urban
and first-generation-in-college students – and to show them
steps to take on a health-career path.
The
instructors for the PUSH/SUCCESS are Drs. Elzie McCord and
Sandra Gilchrist, biology professors at New College.
The
PUSH/SUCCESS Program is supported in part by the New College of
Florida and the Allen Wirtz and Jo Bowen Nobbe Fund through the
Sarasota Community Foundation.
