School Sponsors Science Seminars

The Bronxville School District is doing its part to create the next crop of critical thinkers by organizing a series of lectures on a variety of scientific topics intended to prepare students for the 21^st century workplace and the increasingly global, knowledge-based economy. Superintendent David Quattrone cited the science seminars as an excellent example of the District's effort to adopt a global perspective and focus on application of knowledge and real-world problem solving skills.

In October, the Science Department invited Dr. William Macaulay, the director of the Center for Hip and Knee Replacement at New York-Presbyterian The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, who spoke about his work and showed the students a video of one of his hip resurfacing surgeries.

On Dec. 8, Bronxville resident Dr. Lou Massa, who is a professor in the Chemistry and Physics Department of Hunter College, will speak to high school biology and Chemistry II students on the “Quantum Biology of the Ribosome” and its role in protein production in the body. The lecture will take place in the high school auditorium. On Feb. 13, Stuart Firestein, professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, will be speaking about olfactory reception (how we smell).

“Our plan has been to schedule a speaker about once every month or two,” said Ann Meyer, a science teacher at the high school. “The goal is to expose students to careers in science and math and to connect current research to what they are learning in class here in Bronxville.”