Release date: April 18, 2003

Contact: Frances Weyand, Director of Media Relations, 770-423-6203 or fweyand@kennesaw.edu

Distinguished secondary science teacher honored

The Kennesaw State University chapter of Sigma Xi, the international society for scientific research, will present its award for the 2003 Distinguished Secondary Science Teacher to Janet Callahan, a biology teacher and division chair at Pope High School. The award will be given Monday, April 21, at 3:30 p.m. in Science Building Room 109, in conjunction with the ENPLAS Lecture Series presentation by Dr. Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.

The award is presented to a teacher who demonstrates excellence and innovation in the teaching of science at the secondary school level. In addition to teaching and chairing the science division at Pope, Callahan has spent summers gaining experience in industrial biochemical research in Coca-Cola research labs; she has been an active member of the Cobb County review committee and the biology textbook committee.

Gidden's lecture, "Hemodynamics and Atherosclerosis: Arteries to cells and back again," will focus on bioengineering.

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