Education
DNA Art Competition 2009 winner and finalists
The HudsonAlpha DNA Day Art Competition was created to highlight the natural connections that exist between the scientific and artistic fields. Artists from across Alabama were invited to submit works inspired by the human genome and its relationship to health and disease. Kimberly Hart, a Huntsville artist and educator at Greengate School, created the winning submission, "Code Cracked". Hart noted that the inspiration for "Code Cracked" was from a newspaper article describing the sequencing and interpretation of an individual’s DNA:
Madelene Loftin has been named the 2009/10 HudsonAlpha educator in residence. Loftin has 14 years of experience teaching biology I and II, physical science and introduction to engineering and was lead science teacher in her department. On June 1, Loftin will start her year at HudsonAlpha by developing new educational outreach initiatives and learning cutting-edge genetics and genomics education techniques.
HudsonAlpha educational outreach distributed 100 each of two new laboratory kits to all 11 Science in Motion sites across the state of Alabama in March. The kits are geared for 9-12 grade biology or genetics students and set for distribution to classrooms throughout the state as part of the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative (AMSTI).