Parkway Central Student to Attend MIT Summer Institute

The following information was provided by the Parkway School District:

Elaine Reichert, Parkway Central High, is the only Missouri student selected to attend the prestigious Research Science Institute at MIT this summer.

More than 1,400 high school seniors applied to the Research Science Institute (RSI), but only 51 U.S. students were chosen.

Reichert's chemistry teacher, Ken Greathouse, recommended she apply to the program.  Reichert will do the research component of this program in the lab of Dr. James Bradner (Harvard Medical School faculty member) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts.

RSI is an annual educational, summer program which consists of one week of theoretical classroom work, followed by four-and-a-half weeks of research with a professor or research scientist in the students’ respective areas of interest. In the final week, students demonstrate their work through written academic papers and present oral findings to their peers and a panel of judges.

To read more about the Research Science Institute go to:  http://www.cee.org/news/research-science-institute-mit-hosts-81-high-school-students