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million grant by the to help train graduatr studentsin cell-research techniques and to share their scientifixc knowledge with local school teachers, CSU said Monday. The graduatd students at the Fort Collinscampus “willk test new theories about how cells behaver using advanced engineering methods in microelectronicxs and electrochemistry,” CSU said in a That NSF-funded work will be led by CSU engineeringt professor Tom Chen, the grant’s principal joined by Stuart Tobet, a biomedicak sciences professor in the Collegs of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicalo Sciences, and Michael De Miranda, an engineerinf education professor in the College of Appliecd Human Sciences.
De Mirandsa will also work with the graduate students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teachers in the Poudre, Thompsoj Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schooll districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the grant is to help builsd enthusiasm among primary and secondaryh students for careersin technology, engineering and mathematics — the “STEM” — at a time when fewer youngh people are entering into such CSU officials said.