For 10th-12th Grade High School Students ( Download Flyer )
When: March 26, 2025, 9:45AM – 2:15PM
Where: University of Maryland Baltimore, 685 W. Baltimore St.
Register now for the Spring 2025 Event!
Our Goal
STEM Outreach Day is an outreach program sponsored by the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center (UMGCCC) that targets 10th-12th grade high school students from Baltimore City area. This semi-annual event aims to introduce students to careers available in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Program Structure
Our Outreach Day offers a hands-on lab designed to allow students to experience typical wet lab work, a panel of professionals that will discuss careers in STEM (including engineering, environmental science, medicine, physical therapy, & more), and a tour through some of University of Maryland, Baltimore’s cutting-edge research labs. Participants will additionally be provided with a pizza lunch that includes salad & dessert.
Our Team
Rena S. Lapidus, PhD
Dr. Lapidus is the program coordinator for the STEM Outreach Day. She is a researcher and associate professor on campus, as well as Assistant Director of the UMGCCC Shared Services and the Director of the Translational Laboratory Shared Service. Her work focuses on helping clinicians and pre-clinical investigators ‘translate’ novel drugs from bench to bedside.
Kristen M. Varney, PhD
Dr. Varney assists Dr. Lapidus in STEM Outreach Day program coordination. Dr. Varney is a professor in the UMB Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department, is the Co-Director of the UMGCCC Structural Biology Shared Resource and is the Structural Biology Section Leader for the UMB Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics (CBT). Her work focuses on promoting the use of multiple structural biology techniques, including NMR spectroscopy, in projects at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Support
Thank you to our partners:
University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Innovative Biomedical Resources.
Contact
For questions or more information, please contact:
Rena Lapidus
Phone: (410) 706-3715
Email: rlapidus@som.umaryland.edu
Kristen Varney
Phone: (410) 706-2110
Email: kvarney@som.umaryland.edu