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November 11, 2004

UPB Science Program Gets Grant

The science in motion (SIM) program at the Bradford campus has received an $11,300 grant for the 2004-05 school year that will allow the program’s mobile educators to continue teaching science labs that demonstrate the effects of tobacco on living organisms.

The grant came from the Tobacco Cessation Partnership for a Clean McKean through Bradford Regional Medical Center, a grant funded by the commonwealth.

The money from the grant will be used to enhance the mobile lab demonstration, “Testing the Effects of Nicotine on the Water Flea, Daphnia Magna,” and to introduce a new lab demonstration, “Tobacco Toxicity Testing With California Blackworms.”

Last year, SIM traveled to various elementary schools in McKean County. This year’s grant will allow the program to expand into middle schools and high school biology classes.

The purpose of the labs is to teach the youth in the area the effects of tobacco use and to help prevent them from making the decision to use tobacco products.

“Science in motion believes that these two labs do much to educate area students on the dangers of tobacco use,” said James Baldwin, director of Science in Motion and assistant dean of academic affairs and registrar. “Young people who might resist warnings about the evils of smoking will come away from these labs educated in a concrete way about the very real dangers of tobacco.”

Filed under: Feature,Volume 37 Issue 6

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