Deirdre DeLoatch, Sumon Saha Roy, Chris Birke, and Patricia Gilkes

The team’s innovative teaching idea, “The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks,” focuses on creating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) interdisciplinary units in an innovative way to review traditional book text that can be brought to life. With the support of the Voya grant, students involved in the project at Cultural Academy for the Arts & Science will write poetry and conduct scientific research to explore cell culture, conduct debates, learn rhetorical analysis and write thematic essays about the historical era.