Cloud County Community College
www.cloud.edu
Concordia campus, (800) 729-5101
Geary County campus, Junction City, (785) 238-8010
For Immediate Release
2/8/2010 10:47:22 AM
Contact: Ty Hughbanks, 800-729-5101 ext. 245
Author: Jenny Acree
(CONCORDIA, KS) – Students from Pike Valley High School’s Advanced Biology class visited the human cadaver lab and biology department at Cloud County Community College, Concordia campus February 5.
Faculty and students at the college offer these cadaver visits as a way to get high school students more interested in studying biology and other sciences in their post-secondary education. The students get a chance to meet and interact with college faculty and current CCCC students.
“I believe the visiting students appreciate the tour being informative but are more fascinated with the fact they have never been around cadavers before or had the opportunity for a hands-on learning experience,” Tyrone Hughbanks, CCCC instructor of biology, said.
Cloud County Community College is one of only a few community colleges in the nation to have a cadaver lab and offer a Human Body Dissection course and utilize the cadavers in the Human Anatomy course.
The first cadaver was used during the Fall 1998 semester as part of the Human Anatomy course. More than 20 years later, students are still learning about the human body by studying the cadavers.
Front row, left to right: Mara Engelbert, Carly Swanson, Charlsie Craig, Megan Ludacka, Kayla Davis, Taylor Peters and Savannah Sederlin. Back row, left to right: Brady Jensen, Cody Jensen, Brian Strawder, Ashley Gross, Brittany Novak, Brittany Vignery and Pike Valley HS instructor Joston Wasson.
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