{"id":6449,"date":"2010-06-04T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-news\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:39:16","slug":"citylab-garners-national-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2010\/06\/04\/citylab-garners-national-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"CityLab Garners National Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University School of Medicine\u2019s CityLab program was cited by the Center for Excellence in Education as an exemplary program at the National Labs Skills Symposium in Washington, DC. CityLab is a biotechnology learning laboratory for students in grades 7 \u2013 12 and their teachers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-781\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/06\/CityLab-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"CityLab Logo\" width=\"175\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Established in 1992, BUSM CityLab is an innovative, laboratory-based science education outreach program that has been replicated across the country. CityLab\u2019s mission is to provide access to state-of-the-art biotechnology laboratory facilities and curriculum that are often unavailable to school systems. Teachers from Massachusetts and neighboring states bring their students to CityLab where they solve problems by applying the techniques and concepts of genetics and molecular biology that are used in research laboratories today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-785\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-785\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/06\/Carl-Franzblau2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Carl Franzblau\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Franzblau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Founder of CityLab, Carl Franzblau,PhD, explains, \u201cI am particularly pleased with this recognition. It is clearly the culmination of the effort of our outstanding team of colleagues throughout the years. An award such as this gives us the confidence and drive to move CityLab to the next level. Our future programs promise to be as exciting as those developed in the past. We are honored by the Center for Excellence in Education\u2019s recognition of CityLab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 students have participated in hands-on, discovery-oriented investigations and 2,000 teachers have attended workshops at CityLab or aboard the MobileLab. According to CityLab\u2019s Director of Research Carla Romney, DSc,  \u201cCityLab promotes access to the biomedical sciences for all students.\u201d  Approximately a quarter of the students are members of minority groups and over half of the students are female. CityLab\u2019s curriculum supplements have been adopted for use by museums, schools and enrichment programs world-wide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-786\" style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-786\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/06\/Carla-Romney1.JPG\" alt=\"Carla Romney\" width=\"146\" height=\"144\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carla Romney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-788\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2010\/06\/Don-DeRosa1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Don DeRosa\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don DeRosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that BUSM\u2019s CityLab has been recognized by the Center for Excellence in Education. Our program is model for many programs across the US that allow middle and high school students and teachers to deepen their understanding of science through laboratory-based investigations in molecular biology using an inquiry-based approach,\u201d said Donald DeRosa, EdD, CityLab Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University School of Medicine\u2019s CityLab program was cited by the Center for Excellence in Education as an exemplary program at the National Labs Skills Symposium in Washington, DC. CityLab is a biotechnology learning laboratory for students in grades 7 \u2013 12 and their teachers. Established in 1992, BUSM CityLab is an innovative, laboratory-based science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}