PHILANTHROPY
Endowment Fund Will Take OES Science Research
to New Level The fund named after Dr. Lamb will allow his work to be continued and further developed.
Endowment—was created with a $25,000 donation from the parents of an OES graduate to further Dr. Lamb’s legacy. It will provide funds for building more connections for research through stipends for students and faculty to attend conferences. It also will provide grants for faculty and student research, and it will pay for new laboratory equipment to make sure that students are doing hands-on research in real-world environments. Funding from the Winningstad Endowed Chair in Science and Engineering helped recruit Dr. Lamb to OES 31 years ago. Te word “engineering” was recently added to the Chair name to reflect the heightened emphasis in that area through such initiatives as the InvenTeam, which was featured in December at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. With Dr. Lamb’s retirement a year ago, a search was made for a new occupant of the Winningstad Chair, and OES science teacher Chris Mader has been chosen to fill that role. Te Winningstad Chair, and now the Lamb
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Endowment, will help OES keep up with the materials needed for students to experiment as a way of learning. As Dr. Lamb says, “It is hard to do hands-on work without having stuff to put your hands on, so focusing the science curriculum on hands-on inquiry has forced us to acquire equipment and chemicals—
uring 30 years of teaching at OES, Dr. Bill Lamb built a program that gives students experience doing hands-on science research with mentors to employ science for the betterment of humanity. A new endowed fund will continue that legacy. Te new fund—called the Dr. William G. Lamb Science
everything from hammers for nail-driving to carbon dioxide incubators for tissue culturing.” Especially in the upper grades, students connect with mentors among the faculty or from outside organizations such as Oregon Health Sciences University. Tey frequently are introduced to these mentors through their attendance at workshops and competition at science fairs, and the new endowment will fund further opportunities for those connections. Tose relationships allow students to perceive themselves as valid researchers and to view faculty members and other adults as coaches and collaborators rather than as teachers who assign tests and homework. Dr. Lamb has been told on occasion
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The research program provides an avenue for many students to demonstrate their power for good. —Dr. Bill Lamb
by principal investigators in professional labs that the OES students fit into their research team so well that the principal investigator actually forgot that the OES team member was a high school student. Many student researchers are motivated to conduct original research so they can further scientific knowledge and solve real-world problems. Some common research themes are alternative energy, cures for diseases, and treatment and prevention of pollution. Dr. Lamb says that desire to do good work is not so much a byproduct of the science program as it is a reflection of the OES culture that encourages students to think and connect with the world around them. And the science program gives them some of the tools to do that.
Dr. Lamb was given the Distinguished Service to Science Education award by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) at the organization’s national convention in San Antonio in April. The award honors him for making “extraordinary contributions to the advancement of education in the sciences and science teaching.“
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