Sharon Professor Develops Chemistry Camp for Girls at URI
Hoping to create a generation of female scientists, a URI chemistry professor from Canton receive grant for chemistry camp for 40 middle school girls from Rhode Island.
(The following article was sent to Sharon Patch from the University of Rhode Island.) Abundant research confirms that girls start losing interest in science during middle school or earlier and the result is a dearth of women working in science, technology, engineering, and math. In 2009, only 24 percent of scientists and engineers were women, according to the Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey. A new weeklong chemistry camp for 40 middle school girls will be held at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston campus during the April public school vacation in 2013 and 2014. The camp is the brainchild of URI assistant professor of chemistry Mindy Levine, a Sharon resident, who hopes to ignite a passion for science in girls at a …
