Re: Neuro Summer Camp

send me details on past work,, are they from good schools or urbanites

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:13 PM, wrote:

By the way, my department (neurosurgery) has a summer camp for high school girls where we pick 5 of the smartest high school girls from the region - take them to the OR and make them work on a lab-based project. Some are bench, some are computer, some are clinical. For the past few years, all of the girls have published at least one peer-reviewed paper and every single one of them has aced the SAT and gotten into their first choice college. I'm hoping they will all be neurosurgeons but I suspect most will do hard science or something else.

• It's pretty cheap to run but I want to expand it to 8 girls and pay for a few field visits for them (around town) and maybe even invite a Nobel laureate or two to come visit them.

• So if you are still giving out money for science (this is girl's science) let me know? I put in $15K of my own salary and the foundation matches some of it. Budget is now about $75K annually that my chairman and I have a small grant for but pls consider this one in your lineup. OK? It's at the University so charitable, etc. Plus the girls are super smart.