Model-turned-scientist trying to pique students' interest
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday March 22, 2009
John Dixon
University of Illinois laboratory teaching specialist Joanne Manaster, left, helps sophomore Kerri Henderson look at muscle cells using an inverted phase microscope.
Surrounded by stacks of biology textbooks and popular science books, posters (one of the Periodic Table of the Elements, another of the film "Mama Mia") and a green-dress-wearing Barbie with long, dark locks, Joanne Manaster turns on the camera and waxes poetic about the inner child of scientists.
For this particular vlog, which she later posted on YouTube, she recommends reading science books aimed at middle school and high school students and written by Joy Hakim. Even if you're not a middle school or high school student.
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