Understanding Valley Fever: Key Facts at a Glance

Understanding Valley Fever: Key Facts at a Glance

While fungi play a crucial role in the environment and food web, medicine, food production, environmental cleanup, research and industry, biotechnology and agriculture, some species of fungi can pose serious health risks. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to eat...
Community Forensics Workshop Features MiniOne Electrophoresis

Community Forensics Workshop Features MiniOne Electrophoresis

For nearly four years, volunteers at the La Jolla/Riford Library have been offering hands-on science programs that are free and open to the public. Enthusiasm for using science to solve crimes makes forensics a consistently popular topic for our community science...
Workshop at La Jolla Library – Foodborne Outbreak Investigation

Workshop at La Jolla Library – Foodborne Outbreak Investigation

An inquiry-based lab incorporating hypothesis testing, experimental design, and data analysis Give students the complete hands-on experience of running a molecular biology investigation from beginning to end while engaging them with a scenario based on a real-world...