Professor works to inspire school children from his hometown

Joseph Freeman, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences and director of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration Laboratory, teaches graduate students in Fundamentals of Tissue Function Structure and Replacement. He also has a different set of students, also hungry for knowledge of science, hundreds of miles away from Blacksburg, Va., that aren't quite ready for college. Yet.