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Class & Club Spotlight - October 2024

Class on Conservation
Claire Helmke, a wildlife biologist with nonprofit conservation group Quail Forever, visited the 9th and 10th grade Environmental Science classes last week to share her experience in wildlife research and habitat restoration. Students then crafted research questions based on their study spots in Rock Creek Park, which the classes will work towards answering in the coming months.
Life and Landscapes
Advanced Art History with Maureen visited the main collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts to examine the various ways women artists critiqued the society around them. Pictured: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Indian, Indio, Indigenous (1992), which connects "the destruction of the environment and the eroding of Native American culture and the land through Euro-American influence."

At the Molecular Level: Part 2
Morgan reports, "the Advanced Research in Molecular Biology class successfully extracted DNA from their arthropods and ran a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) to amplify the genes of interest! Students are assessing two genes: an arthropod CO1 gene, which will reveal to students the exact species of their arthropod upon DNA sequencing, and a Wolbachia-specific gene, which will allow students to assess whether their arthropod was infected with the bacterium Wolbachia. All data will be sent to the Bordenstein Lab at Penn State to help them track the presence of this bacterial infection in arthropods." *Join the class for final project presentations on November 26 at 2:30 PM.
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