Celebrating our Founder, Hortense Brice!
Baxter Center video wins 2021 dotCOMM award!
Over 150,000 students reached.
Over 1,500 teachers trained.
Baxter Center Teacher Workshops
The Baxter Center provides a variety of professional learning for middle and high school educators. Whether you’re looking to build your basic biotech skills, practice science classroom facilitation moves, or try out some cool new labs, we’re here to help. Register for a FREE workshop today!
The Baxter Box Program
Borrow science equipment and get lab kits to do hands-on activities with your students!
Hands-on learning can bring your curricula to life! Everyone who has attended a Baxter Center workshop is eligible to borrow equipment and receive the consumables needed for labs to do with their students, at no cost. Make your reservation today!
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
2928
Total teachers trained
1400+
Baxter Box lab kits distributed
24,000+
YouTube Channel views
since 2009
211,000
estimated students reached
382
Total schools reached
180
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
Nina Hike
George Westinghouse College Prep
Mary Clark
Whitney M Young Magnet High School
Suzanne Fetherling
Hoffman Estates High School
Our Team
Emily Ferrin, Ph.D.
Interim Assistant Dean
Office of Community Education Partnerships
Ashley Walter, M.S.
Program & Partnership Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Natalie Bueno, B.S.
Program & Partnership Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Sachin Pradhan M.S.
Software Developer
Office of Community Education Partnerships
Kate Brownson
Program Coordinator
Baxter Center for Science Education
Jennifer Richards, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
School of Education and Social Policy
Gulnura Sultanova, B.S.
Program Assistant
Office of Community Education Partnerships
James Schottelkotte
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics
Natalie Turner
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
Jamie Kim
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
Irene Quan
Administrative Aid
Baxter Center for Science Education
