Cathedral School is on a mission to improve science education. As one of six University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Rural Biomedical Initiative schools statewide, Cathedral offers an advanced biomedical research class to its seniors. The school also offers human anatomy and physiology courses in conjunction with nearby Copiah Lincoln Community College that allow Cathedral students to earn college credits while still in high school. But as Cathedral’s science curriculum and its students’ enthusiasm for that curriculum grew, deficiencies in the school’s science facilities became glaringly apparent. “We were working on growing our own physicians and medical professionals at Cathedral, but we didn’t have the facilities we needed to provide advanced laboratory activ

Join for free to read