High Point University’s Mobile Lab
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High Point University's Mobile Lab is an innovative science lab on wheels that makes chemistry, biology, neuroscience, and physics accessible to all students. With an enthusiasm for science uniquely their own, HPU’s undergraduate Natural Sciences Fellows, with faculty oversight, take the mobile lab to select HPU campus events and schools throughout the city of High Point and the Piedmont Triad. The HPU Mobile Lab is integrated into HPU’s undergraduate education science co-curriculum and allows students to create experimental modules on HPU’s campus with the purpose of increasing the accessibility to sciences in the community.

“I feel good knowing that he’s going to have the advantage to use this lab,” said Kellie Jackson, a high school parent, about her son, Branden, after they toured the mobile lab. “It’s amazing what can be seen under these microscopes.”

The Mobile Lab is an outreach program under the umbrella of the Wanek School of Natural Sciences. 

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History
In 2016, HPU awarded a Think Big! Grant to Professors Coffield, Segarra, and Srougi that would provide HPU students enrolled in biology and chemistry courses the opportunity to teach science to our community through laboratory experimentation in a Mobile Lab. This grant led to the unveiling of the Mobile Lab in 2018. In recent years, it has been under the umbrella of the Natural Sciences Fellows Program.

Mobile Lab Peer-Reviewed Publications and Presentations
M. Todd Knippenberg, Anne Leak, Shirley Disseler, Veronica A. Segarra. “Establishing Partnerships for Science Outreach Inside and Outside the Undergraduate Classroom.” Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 21, no. 2: 20 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i2.2025

Kelli Sapp.(2025, July 7-10). Increasing Community Accessibility to the Natural Sciences using High Point University’s Mobile Lab [Conference presentation]. Public Engagement & Science Outreach Symposium, 100th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.