Image: On Friday, June 7th, nine graduate students from the Microbiology Department worked with Dr. Anna Karls (Associate Professor of Microbiology) to provide a hands-on microbiology lab experience for Hispanic high school students. Microbiology graduate students Kristy Hentchel, Nicole Laniohan, Julie Stoudenmire, Amber Enriquez, Lisa Kuhns, Chelsey VanDrisse, Bradley Tolar and Jordan Russell volunteered in the Leadership without Limits program to introduce the high school students to aspects of applied and basic microbiology. Leadership without Limits is a summer pre-collegiate program at the University of Georgia that it is run by the Office of Diversity in the Franklin College and by the Fanning Institute for Leadership Development as part of the Public Service and Outreach programs at UGA. All of the high school students who participated in the program were Hispanic and most were children of migrant workers. Dr. Karls and the Microbiology graduate students hosted a session entitled, "Isolate and Identify Microbes that Generate Biofuel". The session was designed to provide the participants with a hands-on microbiology laboratory experience and give them an idea of what it was like to take a college-level laboratory class.
