{"id":7418,"date":"2023-12-11T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmb.unc.edu\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:12:17","slug":"unc-bcb-and-gmb-graduate-students-baran-flores-mcafee-and-szymanski-volunteer-as-unc-ambassadors-in-the-shadow-a-scientist-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2023\/12\/unc-bcb-and-gmb-graduate-students-baran-flores-mcafee-and-szymanski-volunteer-as-unc-ambassadors-in-the-shadow-a-scientist-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC BCB and GMB Graduate Students Baran, Flores, McAfee, and Szymanski Volunteer as UNC Ambassadors in the Shadow a Scientist program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7419 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"Baran Flores McAfee Szymanski\" width=\"225\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski-600x659.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>On November 29, UNC graduate students Kerstin Baran (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Kathleen Caron lab), JP Flores (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Doug Phanstiel Lab), Jessica McAfee (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Hyejung Won lab), and Rachel Szymanski (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Frank Conlon lab) volunteered their time and expertise for a Shadow a Scientist outreach event held on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. This event included visitors from the Roxboro Community School.<\/p>\n<p>The Shadow A Scientist (SAS) Program brings high school students to UNC\u2019s campus for a day to shadow two scientists in their respective labs. We split high school students into small groups of 2-4 and pair them with a scientist at UNC. In addition to the shadow sessions, high school students chat in small groups with scientists during lunch. In total, this requires ~40 ambassador volunteers each event day.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Shadow a Scientist Program:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shadowascientist.web.unc.edu\/\">https:\/\/shadowascientist.web.unc.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 29, UNC graduate students Kerstin Baran (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Kathleen Caron lab), JP Flores (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Doug Phanstiel Lab), Jessica McAfee (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Hyejung Won lab), and Rachel Szymanski (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Frank Conlon lab) volunteered their time and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2023\/12\/unc-bcb-and-gmb-graduate-students-baran-flores-mcafee-and-szymanski-volunteer-as-unc-ambassadors-in-the-shadow-a-scientist-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UNC BCB and GMB Graduate Students Baran, Flores, McAfee, and Szymanski Volunteer as UNC Ambassadors in the Shadow a Scientist program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":7419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski-273x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2023\/12\/Baran-Flores-McAfee-Szymanski-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Baran Flores McAfee Szymanski","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}