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Jianan Shi

Eric Solorio Academy

About

Jianan Shi serves others as a high school science educator at Eric Solorio Academy, a level 1+ Chicago Public neighborhood high school on the SW side (55th and St. Louis). Jianan currently teaches biology and honors neuroscience to juniors and seniors. Aside from instruction, Jianan seeks out ways to amplify the voices of his amazing students. He is one of the faculty supervisors for the DREAM team, a group of badass undocumented students who raise awareness about issues around immigration at the school and in the community. Before Chicago, Jianan taught three years at Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning school in Boston. He is a double eagle; receiving both his undergraduate and masters degrees from Boston College. Specifically, Jianan had the honor to be part of the Donovan Urban Teaching Scholars cohort and was a NOYCE fellow. In his “free time”, Jianan enjoys his new role of being the away team and roots for his Boston sports teams.

Jianan has spent this summer in the Microfabricated Tissues Models (MTM) laboratory run by Dr. Salman Khetani. The MTM lab creates micropattern co-culture models, which are incredibly important for in-vitro drug screening. This lab fosters a true passion for science and learning; Jianan has had the opportunity to learn from every member of the lab, from HS students and college students to Dr. Khetani himself. Jianan is designing a unit that demonstrates the skills involved in the lab and the applications it has towards drug treatments in his neuroscience course.

 

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