{"id":1385,"date":"2017-09-25T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T01:05:09","slug":"pat-tellinghuisen-receives-vinse-distinguished-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/2017\/09\/pat-tellinghuisen-receives-vinse-distinguished-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Tellinghuisen receives VINSE Distinguished Service Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recognition of the extraordinary success of the\u00a0Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science<\/a>\u00a0(VSVS), which she coordinates,\u00a0Pat Tellinghuisen<\/a>\u00a0is this year\u2019s recipient of the\u00a0Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0(VINSE) Distinguished Service Award.<\/p>\n

The inscription on the award announced last week reads, \u201cFor your dedication to the VINSE\u2013VSVS partnership to expand outreach to rural communities\u201d<\/p>\n

VSVS was founded in 1994, and Tellinghuisen serves as its program director and faculty adviser. The\u00a0VINSE Rural Partnership with the VSVS program began in 2012 under the auspices of a National Science Foundation grant designed to bring hands-on science activities to rural middle-school students who live in counties that cannot afford such activities for their students.<\/p>\n

VSVS created a series of self-contained kits with all the necessary components for a class of 25 to do hands-on science experiments.\u00a0In the beginning, graduate students took the kits out to the rural communities, but organizers quickly realized they could reach only a limited number of rural schools in this fashion.\u00a0So Tellinghuisen\u2014working with Sarah Ross, VINSE program and\u00a0outreach coordinator\u2014created the Rural Teacher Training Program, which brings grade-school teachers to Vanderbilt twice a year to train them to use the kits, which they then take back to their schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe VINSE\u2013VSVS partnership became a shining star of the National Science Foundation\u2019s TN-SCORE [Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research and Education program],\u201d said VINSE Director Sandra Rosenthal, the Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry, when announcing the award Sept. 19.<\/p>\n

According to Rosenthal, the program\u2019s staff is currently working with 47 teachers in five\u00a0counties, and this fall they prepared 263 lessons for 5,680 students in grades 6\u20138. Since the beginning, the program has partnered with 131 teachers in seven\u00a0counties, preparing 1,484 kits that have been used by 27,600 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a little more than 20 years, Pat\u2019s VSVS program has\u00a0had an enormous impact on the schools in Tennessee and on Vanderbilt undergraduates,\u201d said Rosenthal.\u00a0\u201cThis year marks the 12th\u00a0consecutive year Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science has had more than 600 student volunteers, making it the largest student organization on campus. Pat\u2019s VSVS program has provided more than 100,000 students with hands-on science. It\u2019s thrilling to imagine how many chemists, physicists, geologists, engineers and, perhaps most important, new science teachers were first inspired by doing one of Pat\u2019s kits.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Growth in numbers of VSVS student volunteers since its inception in 1994. (From VSVS Annual Report, 2017)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recognition of the extraordinary success of the\u00a0Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science\u00a0(VSVS), which she coordinates,\u00a0Pat Tellinghuisen\u00a0is this year\u2019s recipient of the\u00a0Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering\u2019s\u00a0(VINSE) Distinguished Service Award. The inscription on the award announced last week reads, \u201cFor your dedication to the VINSE\u2013VSVS partnership to expand outreach to rural communities\u201d VSVS was founded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,36,18,6],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sandra-rosenthal","tag-sarah-ross","tag-vinse-news","tag-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}