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Westminster students, teacher complete CU Anschutz START pilot cancer-research internships
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Two Westminster graduates and their biotechnology teacher completed an eight-week START pilot at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus this summer, conducting hands-on cancer research in a neurosurgery lab and helping validate a teacher-student paired internship model funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Two Westminster Public Schools students and a teacher spent the summer working inside cancer research labs at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus as part of a START pilot program, district officials said at the Board of Education meeting Aug. 26.
The pilot paired a teacher and two students with a research mentor in the Anschutz Department of Neurosurgery for an eight-week, hands-on experience that included working with tumor cell samples and presenting results at a campus poster session. Scott Troy, a biotechnology-pathway teacher at the Random Innovation Campus, told the board the work was…
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