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HS Students Meet Experts Through Dalton Science Research Program

Students in the Dalton Science Research Program (DSRP) are meeting with diverse and fascinating scientists from around the country through digitalDalton.
In Trimester 1, students had virtual meetings with scientists, including:
  • Dr. Jon Snow from Barnard College, an expert in the molecular biology of disease in honeybees
  • Dr. Mateus Carneiro from Brookhaven Labs, an expert in the physics of neutrinos
  • Dr. Michael Oppenheimer from Princeton University, a world-renowned expert on climate change modeling and policy
  • Dr. Seung Kim from Stanford University, an expert in fruit fly genetics and director of the Stan-X genetics program for high schoolers. DSRP students are working with Dr. Kim's lab to pilot the Stan-X program at Dalton this year where students can develop their own strain of novel, mutant fruit fly. 
Future DSRP speakers will include Dr. Sonali McDermid of NYU, who studies mathematical models of climate change, and Pete Ersts of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), who uses artificial intelligence to identify the species of animals in camera trap photos. DSRP students are collaborating with AMNH and the Gotham Coyote Project to use machine learning to automate picture classification of the camera traps Dalton students run in Manhattan to study urban coyotes.

The whole Dalton community is welcome to attend these talks. For more information, please contact Dr. Joiner. 

Story submitted by HS Science Research Coordinator Dr. Jessica Joiner
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