Rabbi Samuel M. Cohon (left), director of the foundation that bears his grandparents' name, presents the 2009 Cohon Award to Syd Mandelbaum (center) and Michael Hammer, PhD, founders of the DNA Shoah Project.

 

 

Barbara Fransway, Outreach Coordinator & Research Specialist in the Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Biotechnology and author of the DNA Shoah Project curriculum, recently received the Arizona BioIndustry Association's 2009 Bioscience Educator of the Year award. The award recognizes Barbara as a talented teacher who has engaged, educated and inspired countless high school students across the state of Arizona.

 

Download our press kit.

Press release, "DNA Shoah Project Curriculum Helps Students Understand Holocaust," March 3, 2009

Press release, "DNA Shoah Project Announces Important New Partnership," June 5, 2008

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Letters of Support:

The New York Board of Rabbis

Hadassah International

Next Generations

 

Press coverage:

• 'Citizen scientists' at Palo Verde will assist Holocaust survivors by Rhonda Bodfield, Arizona Daily Star, June 19, 2009
• Using DNA to Track Holocaust Survivors by Stewart Ain, The New York Times, May 17, 2009
• Biology Lessons of the Holocaust by Joyce Gramza, ScienCentral Video News, March 9, 2009
• UA Genomics Lab Tackles Holocaust Puzzle, Arizona Daily Star, November 4, 2008
• The DNA Shoah Project: Building a Global Genetic Database on the Museum of Family History site
• Queens Courier article on the DNA Shoah Project, June 5, 2008
• Where are the Deceased of the Holocaust? by Claudia Barata. Publico, June 6, 2007, translated from Portuguese
• KGUN 9 news coverage, Tucson, AZ, June 2007
• Holocaust Grave DNA by Joyce Gramza, Science Central News, June 5, 2007
• Television coverage on PBS, WLIW TV21 in the New York City metropolitan area, 7:30 PM EDT April 14, 2007
• Holocaust DNA by Joyce Gramza, ScienCentral Video News, November 10, 2006
• Article in The Scientist, vol. 20, issue 9, September 1, 2006
• Building a Memorial from Strands of DNA by Talia Bloch, published in the Jewish Daily Forward, August 25, 2006
• Disasters Drive DNA Forensics to Reunite Families by Clair Ainsworth, published in the journal Nature, vol. 4, June 8, 2006