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"I believe the children are our future...
teach them well and let them lead the way"
-Mr. Randy Watson-
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Professor Z plays dress up with local Los Angeles Unified School District students to get them excited about Science and Engineering
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Professor Z enjoys recruiting undergraduate students to her lab at the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers networking event
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Professor Z has fun explaining how fluorescence imaging works to high school students and gives them a first hand look at this luminescent effect
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Professor Z celebrates Nano Day Oct -9 with the lab by decorating donuts with nano-sprinkles. We taught neighboring labs and students that the size relationship between a 10 cm donut and a 1 mm sprinkle is equivalent to a cell being targeted with the nanoparticles we make in the lab
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