University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Outreach Program Specialist I Med-Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh - (25006098) The Cooper Lab (http://micropopbio.org/) in the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine is seeking an Outreach Program Specialist to assist with the scheduling, coordination and classroom implementation of the EvolvingSTEM science education program across middle and high schools in the greater Pittsburgh area. EvolvingSTEM engages students in grades 6-12 in authentic research experiences in their classrooms with two complementary experiments. In one experiment, students observe “evolution-in-action” as bacterial populations adapt to form complex biofilm communities in their experiments. In the other experiment, students measure how different biofilm-adapted mutants are protected from being eaten by predatory amoebae. The Outreach Program Specialist will be responsible for scheduling and communicating with participating schools and...