December Shining Light Award Honoree
Christopher Revel, Senior Member of the Science Department at Sussex Central High School is DFSME's December Shining Light Honoree. Chris Revel, Senior member of the Science Department at Sussex Central High School, teaches a variety of science courses including...
10th DE STEM Educator Awards Videos
The Delaware STEM Council and DFSME co-hosted the 10th running of the Delaware STEM Educator Awards ceremony in a hybrid format at Buena Vista in New Castle on November 7, 2024. Throughout the evening, awards with accompanying cash prizes were presented to individuals...
Brandywine HS Wins Nat’l Finals AGAIN
May 17, 2024 –For the second year in a row, Brandywine High School's STEM team has been named national winner in the Annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition. (L to R) Katherine McDerby, Malti John and Isabella Chermak (Not pictured: Olivia Erskine)...
DFSME Board Member Awarded $700,000 NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $700,000 grant supporting a collaborative neuroscience research project by DFSME Board Member Dr. Melissa Harrington.
Dr. Harrington is a professor of biological science and director of the Delaware Institute of Science and Technology at Delaware State University. Her collaborator is Dr. Tomasz Smolinski, associate professor of computer and information science.
The research by Dr. Harrington and Dr. Smolinski focuses on how the efficiency of motor neurons in driving muscle contractions can be altered depending on the previous activity of the motor system.
“If we are ever going to have truly natural prosthetics that can be manipulated by commands from our nervous system,” Dr. Harrington says, “we need to understand in detail how the functioning of motor neurons is changed by increased and decreased activity.”
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