New lab's lessons are elementary

From left: Drew Stevenson, librarian at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, and Mary Beth Murphy, fifth-grade teacher at BJM, get started on some sample weight and volume experiments in the new Math and Science Laboratory at the school Nov. 10, as Lauren Hawkins '07 (a chemical engineering major and the pre-collegiate chair of the Cornell student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers) and Carl Batt, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Food Science and co-director of Main Street Science, look on. The new lab is the result of a collective effort between BJM, the Cornell student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers and Main Street Science, the education program of Cornell's Nanobiotechnology Center -- a learning "collaboratorium" that advances the science literacy of elementary school students and the general public. Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography