BY GAIL COLE,
Gazette-Times Reporter
Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Ana Berst and Isabel Goñi-McAteer weren’t total strangers when they paired up as partners for a lip balm-making lab in the Pharmacy Building on the Oregon State University campus Wednesday afternoon.
“We have (advanced placement) biology together” at Corvallis High School, Ana said.
Ana, 17, and Isabel, 16, are participating with nine others in AWSEM, one of OSU’s Saturday Academy pre-college science education programs.
AWSEM — Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Math — is running six sessions this winter in two groups for middle- and high-school students. The middle school group, made up of 25 sixth- through eighth-graders, meets on Tuesdays in January and February, while the high school group, in its first year as an AWSEM program, meets Wednesdays.
Both age groups already have taken tours of OSU’s Wave Lab, Energy Center and College of Veterinary Medicine in earlier sessions.
Launched in 1986, OSU’s Saturday Academy has provided pre-college science programs that have since morphed into summer and after-school activities, such as Wednesday’s lab.
All OSU pharmacy students do the same lip balm-making lab in their first year, and several pharmacy students were on hand to assist with the lab, along with members of Sigma Delta Omega science sorority.
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Editor’s note:
A similar event was held on Tuesday evening, Feb. 1. Twenty-two middle school girls from the same program came to the college to make lip balm and learn about pharmacy.
Volunteers for each event were:
Feb 1:
Pre-pharms: Brian Haggblom, Mariska Widharma, Sopheak Tan, Tiffany Leguina, Andrew Willeford, Kellie Tippett, Lauren Hedges, Phi Vu. P1: Christy Ward. P2: Rowena Vilches Tran
Feb 2: P4: Tammy Chan, P2: Michelle Pfeifer, Vaidahi Patel, Andrew Canning. P1: Duc Nguyen, Amanda Trieu, Natalie Cardoza, Hong Chen, Tilli Bjornberg, Victor Arminderiz