Fostering Tomorrow's Innovators since 2009

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.


Baxter 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report

Making a Meaningful Difference

For nearly a century, Baxter has made a meaningful difference in global healthcare while creating lasting value for the communities they serve. Click here to explore their corporate responsibility goals and accomplishments in more detail.


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



Michael Dixon

Dewey Elementary School of Excellence



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



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



Bella Guerra

Administrative Aid

Baxter Center for Science Education