Celebrating our Founder, Hortense Brice!
What is The Baxter Center?
Over 240,000 students reached.
Over 3,659 teachers trained.
Baxter Center Teacher Workshops
The Baxter Center provides a variety of professional learning opportunities for high school and middle school educators. Join us to build your lab skills and connect with a community of local science teachers. All workshops are FREE and eligible for ISBE hours.
The Baxter Box Program
Borrow science equipment and get lab kits to do hands-on activities with your students!
Our goal is to advance equity in STEM education by increasing access to authentic science experiences. Chicagoland educators can borrow materials and equipment for FREE! Make your reservation today. Workshop participation is highly recommended but not required.
The Baxter Center Case Study & Partnership Toolkit
Promising Practices in Corporate-School-University Partnerships
This case study highlights promising practices for building effective and sustainable STEM partnerships between K-12, industry, and university partners, grounded in the story of the Baxter Center. Check it out to learn more about how our Center got started, what we learned about successfully working with schools, and some of the impacts we have had along the way.
Our Work in the Chicagoland Area
3659
Total teachers trained
1700+
Baxter Box lab kits distributed
36,200+
YouTube Channel views
since 2009
240,000
estimated students reached
402
Total schools reached
229
Total workshops
What our teachers are saying
The BCSE allows teachers to stay up to date with the advancement of technology in science. By helping the teachers stay up to date and by providing activities that can be implanted into the classroom, it allows the future generation to have exposure to new developments in biotechnology at a young age. This hopefully will inspire the students to pursue careers in science.
The BCSE helps out teachers who teach at schools with limited resources get the resources and instructive know how they otherwise would not be able to obtain.
Holy moly, this center is GREAT! I appreciate your outreach, enthusiasm, and expertise. It is really amazing to have this kind of access to a research institution and you are all so helpful in making this type of science accessible to our students.
Our Teacher Leaders
Mary Clark
Whitney M Young Magnet High School
Suzanne Fetherling
Hoffman Estates High School
Nina Hike
George Westinghouse College Prep
Christina Moore
William Jones College Preparatory High School
Valentin Torres
Walter Payton College Prep High School
Our Team
Jennifer Richards, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy
PI, Baxter Center for Science Education
Ashley Walter, M.S.
Program & Partnership Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Natalie Bueno, B.S.
Program & Partnership Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Kate Brownson
Program Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Sachin Pradhan M.S.
Software Developer
Office of Community Education Partnerships
James Schottelkotte
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
Jamie Kim
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
Gloria Pulido
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
Sylvia V. Boguniecki
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
Sana Nanlawala
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
