Jackson State University News December 1, 2010 JSU Science Education Program to Unveil National Exhibit - Dec. 7 (JACKSON, Miss.) - The BioMedical Faces of Sciences Program®, which is part of Jackson State University's Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), in partnership with Faces of Science, Inc., will unveil a traveling exhibit at the Adventure Science Center (www.adventuresci.com) in Nashville on December 7. The BioMedical Faces of Sciences (BFS) exhibit, which will run through February 2011, is sponsored by the Tennessee-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Wellness Project at Meharry Medical College. The opening reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 6:45 p.m. and will coincide with the 12th Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) International Symposium on Health Disparities. More than 500 symposium participants comprised of biomedical scientists from 18 RCMI institutions and approximately 200 K-12 students, teachers and parents are expected to attend the opening of the exhibit. "This is an inaugural event for the BFS program to impress upon the educational and scientific community the importance of putting a face on science to motivate students to consider careers in biomedical sciences and to ultimately increase the number of researchers who are focused on eliminating health disparities," said James Perkins, who is the principal investigator of Jackson State's SEPA program, founding dean of the School of Science and Technology and professor of chemistry in JSU's College of Science, Engineering, and Technology. "We are confident the BFS program will play a role in ensuring that our schools produce tomorrow's scientists, engineers and mathematicians in numbers that will address the needs for researchers to address the complex problems associated with solving health disparities in our country." The multimedia exhibit presents 13 mentor scientists whose work and lives serve as positive role models to today's aspiring scientists. The exhibit features successful researchers and clinicians who present positive messages to today's youth. The Biomedical Faces of Science Program is funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources (SEPA Award Number: RR25020405-02). For more information, contact BoNita L. Harris at 601-979-2024 or bonita.l.harris@jsums.edu or visit www.biomedicalfacesofscience.com. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.