PyMOL is a popular molecular visualization software used by scientists and researchers to visualize and analyze molecular structures. It is designed to work with a variety of file formats, including PDB (Protein Data Bank) files, and can display a range of molecular properties, such as protein linkage, electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding.
For two short days on the Cornell Campus, the students from around the country - including four students from Puerto Rico - were able to meet their mentors from CHESS and their peers from other community colleges and undergraduate institutions. Their trip to Cornell offered the opportunity to tour the CHESS facility, explore the Ithaca area, and present their summer projects to an audience of CHESS directors, graduate students, and their fellow summer research students.
The Graduate Student School Outreach Program, GRASSHOPR, pairs Cornell graduate students with teachers across neighboring counties. The students visit the schools and teach courses on topics related to their fields of interest. The K-12 students are able to experience new mentors that are eager to share their knowledge, while the graduate students and teachers benefit from exchanging ideas as they dev
CHESS serves as a model to other national research facilities, providing programs for community college students, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities to participate in cutting-edge science research and engineering activities at synchrotron light source. As part of its initiative to advance representation of underserved populations, CHESS recently sponsored Ellen Leibowitz, 2017 AAAS Entry Point!
Led by Master Teacher Charles Canestaro, of the Cortland Enlarged City School District, the group started the day with the ever popular Foutan Boards kit. The boards, one of the most charismatic items offered by CHESS’s Physics Teachers Lending Library, gave the teachers an opportunity to learn about the structure and behavior of current and voltage in circuits.
Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are on the forefront of education reform across the region and nation, offering certification in a broad scope of paths in skilled trades such as construction, manufacturing, machining, and engineering.
Printers, cassette recorders, and DVD players are chock full of parts—motors, lights, gears, switches, buttons, pulleys, belts, liquid crystal displays, and speakers—that employ standards-worthy concepts of physics, mathematics, and engineering. It’s undeniably captivating to examine the design of these intricate systems, it’s exciting to bring the components back to life, and it’s fun to get creative building something new.
The first workshop of its kind was hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, aimed at helping science educators understand how these national science standards will impact K-12 education. NGSS encompass an ongoing science education reform initiative launched in the late 1980's aimed at improving the quality, relevance and availability of STEM. NGSS represent a set of goals for our nation, outlining what educators expect students to be able to do and understand after completing secondary school, building a foundation for their post-secondary education in STEM.
NanoDays Schedule
A range of exciting NanoDays programs will demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the super tiny nanoscale; examine tools used by nanoscientists; showcase nano materials with spectacular promise; and invite discussion of technology and society.