{"id":22757,"date":"2014-02-21T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2021-11-05T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:25:12","slug":"jellyfish-research-featured-in-florida-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/21\/jellyfish-research-featured-in-florida-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Jellyfish research featured in Florida schools"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Angel Yanagihara (photo by Keoki Stender, University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Dive Safety Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Angel Yanagihara<\/strong>, a researcher at the John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Mānoa, and William Gillan, an educator at Boynton Beach High School<\/a>, have produced an educational video, The Science of the Sting<\/em><\/a>, featuring Yanagihara’s research program on the box jelly and a discussion of her experience as a research scientist.<\/p>\n

Developed with funding from the Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund<\/a>, this outreach project promotes STEM education—science, technology, engineering and math—in public schools and is targeted for middle school students (grades 6–9).<\/p>\n

The video inspires young students to pursue their interests in STEM<\/abbr> fields, and it has already been incorporated into the curricula of Boynton Beach and Palm Beach County schools in Florida.<\/p>\n

More on Yanagihara<\/h2>\n

Yanagihara is an R–01-funded investigator (R–01 grants from the National Institutes of Health are considered the “gold standard” of research grants), whose work includes intriguing studies which are helping elucidate the field ecology of box jellyfish and to develop effective treatments for box jellyfish stings.<\/p>\n