{"id":4439,"date":"2025-05-23T09:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:11:28","slug":"future-biologists-experience-a-day-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/05\/23\/future-biologists-experience-a-day-in-the-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Future biologists experience a day in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biological Sciences welcomed 70 enthusiastic young scientists from Meadows Elementary School to campus yesterday for an unforgettable hands-on adventure in biology. Fourth and fifth graders stepped into the shoes of real biologists, diving into a day packed with dissections, body system explorations, a tour of the university&#8217;s natural history museum, and even a lively discussion about photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>The event, led by Dr. Holly Cyphert and supported by her NASA outreach award received last fall, gave students a firsthand look at the exciting world of science\u2014and possibly, a sneak peek at their futures.<\/p>\n<p>With curiosity sparked and lab coats donned, the next generation of scientists got a head start on their journey\u2014right here at Marshall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biological Sciences welcomed 70 enthusiastic young scientists from Meadows Elementary School to campus yesterday for an unforgettable hands-on adventure in biology. Fourth and fifth graders stepped into the shoes of real biologists, diving into a day packed with dissections, body system explorations, a tour of the university&#8217;s natural history museum, and even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,79,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-outreach","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/biology-meadows-elementary-outreach.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}