
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627
Feb. 7, 2007
How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
Albuquerque High School students will literally be learning something about broken hearts when UNM students and professors meet with them on Wednesday, Feb. 14 to talk about tissue engineering. About 100 AHS students are expected to attend this special UNM Bioengineering Outreach program to interest minority students in engineering.
Students will hear a short talk from Assistant Professor Heather E. Canavan from the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering. Then they will be able to touch and interact with implants such as pacemakers.
Canavan will also give the students a short “Name that Implant” quiz. The winners will be invited to tour the laboratories at the Center for Biomedical Engineering at UNM, and two or three students will have the opportunity to work in mentored research positions at the university this summer.
The project is funded by the National Science Foundation’s program on Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials and is a collaboration with Harvard University, Albuquerque Public Schools, the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and UNM.
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