Category: outreach
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Maria de Oca volunteers in local high school to help Hispanic students learn science
Remember when you first heard about DNA replication, cellular structure and photosynthesis? That’s a lot to handle! Now imagine hearing about it for the first time in a language other than your mother tongue and that you are learning at the same time. This is the situation of some Hispanic teenage girls at a high…
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DUML hosts DOE Algae Biomass Consortium
The Duke Marine Lab hosted 20 international collaborators who met August 14-17 to present research and develop future research plans to mature the science of using marine microalgae (phytoplankton) as a feedstock for energy and fuel. Representatives of the algae biomass consortium include university labs (Duke, Cornell, San Francisco State, Mississippi, Hawaii, University of Norland),…
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Duke Marine Lab Open House 2013 educates citizens on the importance of marine phytoplankton
The Johnson Lab participated in Duke University Marine Lab’s annual Open House on Saturday, August 3rd. Members of the community were welcomed to Piver’s Island to visit campus and learn about the variety of ongoing research at DUML. At their station inside the Repass Center, the Johnson Lab explained their research on Prochlorococcus and the importance of marine…
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