Chemistry helps Girls Go STEM!

Thursday, February 16, 2017

student with girls
Jaclyn Wrona helping middle-school girls
conduct an experiment

Six members of the Department of Chemistry conducted hands-on chemistry experiments with middle-school girls at the Girls Go STEM! event at the College of Medicine on Saturday, February 11. In this experiment, called "Crack the Case with Chemistry!" girls identified a mystery substance by performing controlled solubility experiments.

Presenters of the experiment included graduate students Radhika Anaredy and Jaclyn Wrona, post-doctoral scholars Allie Brandriet and Ashlie Wrenne, Assistant Professor Nicole Becker, and Associate Professor Betsy Stone.

Girls Go STEM! was presented by the UI Health CARE STEM Education program. Girls and their parents were invited for hands-on experiences, medical simulations, research activities, and career exploration alongside current UI Carver College of Medicine students, as well as doctors, researchers, and other health science professionals.

 

At Girls Go STEM!
Alli Brandriet at Girls Go STEM!

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.