OSU Medicine partners with Discovery Lab for science and health care exhibit

Monday, October 6, 2025

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Kayley Spielbusch | Digital Communications Specialist | 918-561-5759 | kspielb@okstate.edu

In order to introduce more students to careers in health and science, OSU Medicine
has partnered with Tulsa’s Discovery Lab to give children an inside look at health care through the Curiosity Clinic. 

The Curiosity Clinic is a hands-on exhibit sponsored by OSU Medicine located in the
Discovery Lab, a science museum whose mission is to spark curiosity, inspire learning
and promote STEAM — science, technology, engineering, art and math education. 

The exhibit features interactive activities for museum guests, including cast-making,
DNA experiments, surgery simulation and more. 

The exhibit also provides visitors with information about career opportunities in
medicine and health care at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
and OSU Medicine.

Graduate students from the microbiome lab of Crystal Johnson, assistant professor of microbiology at OSU-CHS,
assisted in setting up the exhibit’s activities prior to opening.  

To celebrate the Curiosity Clinic’s opening, OSU Medicine and Discovery Lab invited
local media to get a first look at the exhibit on Oct. 3. During the event, students
from William R. Teague Elementary School in Wagoner, Oklahoma, were at the museum
and engaged with the exhibit’s activities. 

Students had the chance to learn more about medicine from  Dr. Stacy Chronister, clinical
assistant professor at OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, as she demonstrated how
to apply casts on a model teddy bear. 

Monica Collington, assistant vice president for External Affairs and Strategic Communications
at OSU-CHS, said this partnership is reflective of the institution’s mission.

“Across OSU Medicine, we are committed to inspiring the next generation of Oklahoma
students to consider health and science careers. We know that it’s important to ‘see
it to be it,’ and this exhibit plants those seeds of possibility in these young minds,”
Collington said.

The Curiosity Clinic will be open to the public through November.