FOCUS in Sound

On this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we highlight a very successful science education program for high school students that has received support from the Fund’s Student Science Enrichment Program. It’s called LEAP, or Launch into Education About Pharmacology. Based at the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, LEAP targets students at high schools in seven counties surrounding Durham. LEAP is an intensive three-week summer course followed by an opportunity during the school year for students to design a research project addressing pharmacology concepts, or to develop a presentation on pharmacology issues that are of interest to them.