MATTOON, IL-(Effingham Radio)- World-renowned human genetics educator Dr. Sam Rhine spoke at a Genetics Update Conference hosted by Lake Land College, Thursday, Dec. 6.
Described by experts in the human genetics field as the most effective human genetics educator in America today, Rhine is the director of the Genetics Education Center near Indianapolis.
He received the “Honorary Membership Award” by the National Association of Biology Teachers.
The award is recognized as the highest honor bestowed on members of the profession and is awarded annually.
Rhine has made more than 8,500 presentations to more than 3.75 million teenagers in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Rhine is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Indiana in Bloomington in the Department of Applied Health Science where he teaches a summer class on “Causes and Prevention of Birth Defects.”
He also teaches summer classes at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and the University of Texas Pan AM campus in Edinburg, Texas.
He has lectured in London, Prague, Montreal, and Tokyo and taught human genetics in St. Petersburgh States in St. Petersburgh, Russia.
For more information visit www.samrhine.com.
The conference, sponsored by the Lake Land College Math and Science Division, and coordinated by biology instructor, Brenda Hunzinger, was open to students, teachers, staff, and the entire community.
Approximately 250 individuals, including many high school, college, and university students, were in attendance.
Topics of discussion for this year’s conference included multifactorial inheritance, gene editing, and tissue engineering.