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High school students visit COP lab South Carolina Governor's School students, who visited the College of Pharmacy lab as part of their subject concentration area in molecular biology, learned how to formulate both oil-in-water and water-in-oil creams and to understand the appropriate use of each.     Pharmaceutical sciences instructor and assistant dean for student affairs Steve Brown directs a group of students from the Governor's School of South Carolina at the College of Charleston in the formulation of a dermatologic cream for drug delivery. The students visited MUSC June 30. From left are Brown, Purvi Amin from A.C. Flora High School, Claudia Reyner of A.C. Flora, Casey Courtney of Beaufort High School, Sara Page of T.L. Hanna High School, and Jennifer Lee of Charleston Academic Magnet School. Other students were directed by Deborah Ray Holly, Pharm.D., of College of Pharmacy/Pharmacy and Clinical Sciences.  They also received instruction in the various ways medications can be administered from lollipops to suppositories, especially for patients unable to swallow pills. The visit was one of a number of field trips exposing the students to careers in research and the health sciences.     Other topics covered in the governor's school, which was established by Gov. James B. Edwards in 1976, included Global Issues ranging from Nation Building: Political Development and Constitutional Design to the Psychology of World events.     The molecular biology section at the governor's school was led by MUSC Professor Emeritus George Tempel, Ph.D., assistant dean for scientific outreach in the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience.  Friday, July 16, 2004 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.