The students peered into tiny dishes of armyworms. Some used tweezers to poke at pieces of uneaten worm food."Eeew! This one's dead," a student said."It drowned in its own excrement," another explained. More exclamations followed.

The middle and high school students were near the end of a recent two-week outreach program at New College of Florida. The worm experiment, directed by biology professor Elzie McCord, was part of an introduction to health professions sponsored by the college, Gulf Coast South Area Health Education Center and Zeta Phi Beta sorority.  more >>