Seaford Native Featured in Recycling Awareness Video

A graduate is featured in a new recycling awareness video produced by the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE).

The video now posted on YouTube profiles an ecology club at the Abby Kelley Foster Charter School in Worcester, Mass. run by Dr. Judith Luber-Narod, a 1974 Seaford High School graduate. Luber-Narod has taught Chemistry and Biology at Abby Kelley Foster Charter School, which is located in a diverse working class neighborhood, since 2007. The Northborough, Mass. resident said she was first drawn to teach science by her biology teacher at Seaford High School, Bernadette Voras. 

Luber-Narod organized a viewing party with her student to view the ACE video, which debuted on Aug. 24.

"They were so excited about it," said Luber-Narod, who estimates that 1 million people on ACE's email list will be made aware of the video. 

In addition to taking part the ACE video, several of Luber-Narod's students recently received certificates from President Obama and other leaders for their work toward helping to save the environment. Her school was also made famous last May when teachers danced behind students without knowledge, which went was featured by the Huffington Post.  

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After graduating from Seaford High School, Luber-Narod received her B.A in Biology from Stony Brook University and performed research at the Isles of Shoals Research Center off New Hampshire before receiving her acceptance to the University of Miami Medical School. At Miami, Luber-Narod studied Neuropharmacology under acclaimed biologist Dr. Lincoln Potter. 

Luber-Narod first arrived in Massachusetts when she conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School in Worcester, Mass., where she taught science to medical students for 16 years, and performed groundbreaking research into the underlying causes of Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, which sighted in Nobel Prize-winning studies. The Seaford native later researched Interstitial Cystitis for the Department of Urology, before leaving UMass for Zeltia'sPharmaMar, where she led the testing of cancer drugs made from ocean toxins.

Luber-Narod said her teaching job has been very rewarding and loves making a difference in young people's lives. 

"I feel like I'm having an impact on the future generation of scientists," she said. "It feels like I'm doing something important."