Harry Robert Hall

High School Research Science Teacher

Goals:  To provide an atmosphere for young people to become actively engaged in the sciences.  Create programs that increase student hands on laboratory work within the framework of existing courses and by creating new programs.

Teaching Experience:  Saunders Trades and Technical High School October 1994 - Present: Advanced Placement Chemistry, Advanced Placement Environmental Science, Chemical Technology 11 and 12, Environmental Technology 11 and 12, Survey Biology Lab, Science Regents Competency Test Preparation.

Curriculum Design:  Created the Environmental Technology curriculum at Saunders High School with professors from local colleges.  The program is a three-year course of study.  It meets two periods a day in the sophomore year and three periods a day in the Junior and Senior years.  The program is very lab intensive.  In addition, students must do an individual research project in order to graduate.  Later the program was merged with the Chemical Technology program to form the current Bio-Chem Program at Saunders. 

Community Outreach, Extra Curricular Activities and College Collaboration:

• Collaborated with Sarah Lawrence College on “Blue Team” grant for the 2018-19 school year. In this program 10 students from Saunders High School and 10 Students from Lincoln High School were trained by Sarah Lawrence staff to quantify enterococcus bacteria and other water quality parameters in the Hudson River. This occurred during winter recess of 2019.  Ten of these students will be hired by Sarah Lawrence this summer to continue their work.
• Eel Migration Study 2016-present. Students from Saunders are trained to monitor several water quality parameters in local water ways. They are also trained to set eel mops and check them for fish.  Students set and check an eel mop at the mouth of the Saw Mill River in down town Yonkers twice a week.  The data that is collected is shared with others doing sampling up and down the Hudson River and shared with the state DEC.   
• Cosponsor Saunders Trades and Technical High School’s “Tech Prep Day” technology fair. Here students present the work that they have researched over the past three years to classmates, teachers, scientists and other professionals in the community.
• Facilitated collaboration between Saunders Students and the Yonkers Paddling club during the summer of 2014. Students took Hudson River Samples weekly and brought them to labs at Columbia College for bacterial analysis.
• Collaborated with Ground Works Hudson Valley on “Our Folks” program. Students in Saunders were trained to do basic home maintenance projects such as how to insulate a window or door or do basic landscaping. These students assigned to go to homes of local elderly people to help them with these basic chores allowing them to age in place.
• Collaborated with Ground Works Hudson Valley on energy audit program. Saunders students were trained to perform basic energy audits. They then went to local businesses and performed these audits.  The data was collected, and students made recommendations for the businesses to improve their efficiencies.   
• Collaborated with Ground Works Hudson Valley during the summer of 2013 and 2014. Saunders students collected and analyzed water samples along the Saw Mill River by the newly day lighted section. They also collected fish samples and analyzed diversity. 
• Founded a summer internship program with the Beczak Environmental Center where students help to run programs that promoted awareness of the importance of the Hudson River.
• Initiated a summer intern program with Consumers Union. Students were hired as full time employees for the summer.
• Created summer internship program with the Manhattan College School of Environmental Engineering. Through a grant created with Groundwork Yonkers, Saunders Environmental Technology Students and Manhattan College engineering students studied the Saw Mill River over a period of five years. Each summer one or two Environmental Technology Students worked as paid interns in the Manhattan College labs. 
• Trained and sent groups of students to aide Beczak educators with environmental programs for younger students from Westchester County and New York City. This program is funded by a Service-Learning grant.
• Collaborated on a grant awarded to Groundwork Yonkers to study the fish population in the Saw Mill River. The study was done in collaboration with Lehman College.
• Run the Trout in the Classroom program at Saunders.
• Worked with Trout Unlimited to send students to DEP conservation camp.
• Arranged to have students to act as consultants for Sven Hoegar of Creative Habitats. They analyzed data for an invasive species study that is being done by Creative Habitats.

Science Background:

Senior Research Technician, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, June 1992-October 1994:

Participated in the design, troubleshooting and performance of research examining the relationship of the Human Papilloma Virus and growth factors using various radio-immuno assays to quantify receptor expression, down regulation, synthesis, and various molecular biological techniques to examine receptor gene expression. 

Senior Research Assistant, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, June 1991-June 1992:

Participated in the design and performance of research involving growth factors and breast cancer, particularly insulin like growth factor and the cell cycle, cyclin expression and signal transduction. 

Research Technician, Cornell University Medical Center, June 1989-June1991:

Participated in the design and performance of research studying the effect of cigarette smoke on emphysema in a Guinea Pig animal model; quantitatively analyzed damage to tissue.  Examined the binding properties of several tobacco proteins to various cells to determine tissue specificity.  Screened patients for the presence of Trypanizoma cruzi in a clinical study. 

Laboratory Assistant, State University of New York at Purchase, June 1988-June 1989: 

Performed routine maintenance of scanning and transmission electron microscopes, lab equipment.  Assist students in their study of scanning and transmission electron microscopy.

Education:

Master of Science- Science Education:  The City University of New York, Lehman College

Bachelor of Arts - Biology:  State University of New York at Purchase

Certification:

Biological Technology

Publications, Senior Thesis and awards:           

Smart Maher VFW National Citizenship Education Teacher Award 2018

Yonkers CTE Teacher of the year 2014

Johnson, D., H. Hall, T. P. DiLorenzo, B.M. Steinberg.  1999.  Elevation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors and Dependent Signaling in Human Papillomavirus-infected Laryngeal Papillomas.  Cancer Research 59, 968-974.

A. Santos-Buch, H. R. Hall, F. Farfan, I. Orlow, A. Firpo, B. F. von Kreuter, C. G. Becker. 1995.  Characterization of the tobacco glycoprotein binding property of heart and skeletal muscle cells.  Arch Toxicicol 69: 149-159.

Factor, J.R., P. Manzo, and H. Hall.  1991.  Ultrastructure of tegumental glands in the foregut and hindgut of the lobster (Homerus americanus).  Amer.  Zool., 31:  102A.

Hall, Harry.  The histology and ultrastructure of the esophagus of the lobster Homarus americanus.  Presented at the SUNY Purchase Science Symposium April 29, 1989.