April Shining Light Award Honoree
We are pleased to recognize Crystal Nagyiski! This month’s DFSME Shining Light Award honors Crystal Nagyiski. Crystal specializes in teaching 8th grade Science at Magnolia Middle School, Caesar Rodney School District. She is extremely passionate about sharing her...
DFSME State Fair Contest Winners
DFSME State Fair Contest Winners and Their Entries! First Place: Chance Wright—4th Grade, Greenwood Mennonite School, won $250 for his entry: Hi, my name is Chance Wright. I'm 9 years old and a member of the Peach Blossom 4-H Club. I had many first time contest...
Lt. Gov. Hall-Long: Diversifying STEM Education
I still remember my first day on the job as a clinical nurse. Nervous, excited, ready to put my years of education to work. After some first day jitters, I soon realized I’d found a career that was rewarding and challenging. Not only did it give me the opportunity to...
DFSME Board Member Awarded $700,000 NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $700,000 grant supporting a collaborative neuroscience research project by DFSME Board Member Dr. Melissa Harrington.
Dr. Harrington is a professor of biological science and director of the Delaware Institute of Science and Technology at Delaware State University. Her collaborator is Dr. Tomasz Smolinski, associate professor of computer and information science.
The research by Dr. Harrington and Dr. Smolinski focuses on how the efficiency of motor neurons in driving muscle contractions can be altered depending on the previous activity of the motor system.
“If we are ever going to have truly natural prosthetics that can be manipulated by commands from our nervous system,” Dr. Harrington says, “we need to understand in detail how the functioning of motor neurons is changed by increased and decreased activity.”
Read the full story from Delaware State University