This past summer, high school students spent eight weeks at the Salk Institute, thanks to Education Outreach’s Heithoff-Brody Scholars Program. The students conducted hands-on work in a Salk research lab, supervised by a Salk faculty member. Students learned how to formulate and test hypotheses, prepare experiments, and draw conclusions from their results. At the end of the program, students presented their research projects to their mentors, lab members and families.
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- Salk’s New ExplorersLike people, institutions move forward generation by generation. The Salk Institute’s first group of scientists included founder Jonas Salk, famous for developing the first effective and safe polio vaccine; and Renato Dulbecco, who demonstrated how viruses can cause cancer and who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
- A matter of timeSalk Professor Satchidananda (Satchin) Panda runs his life like clockwork. Most mornings, if he’s not traveling, he wakes up around 6 a.m. without an alarm. One of the first things he does is go out to his backyard to check on his provisions for wild birds.
- Driven to SucceedFrom once being a schoolboy sitting on the floor of a rural classroom with no electricity, to now being a breast cancer researcher in the laboratory of Geoffrey Wahl, Raj Giraddi’s deep and abiding interest in biological research has always driven him forward.
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