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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program 2002 Grant Award. Objectives. Increase access of science careers for underrepresented groups

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUndergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program 2002 Grant Award

  2. Objectives • Increase access of science careers for underrepresented groups • Models for bringing teaching & research closer together; improve science education at all levels; connectivity • Expose to increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the life sciences

  3. What are the programs sponsored at The University of Alabama? • 1. Discovery-based Curriculum • 2. DVD presentation of Integrated Science • 3. Science in Motion • 4. Hughes Rural Science Scholars Program • 5. Hughes Undergraduate Research Intern Program

  4. 1. Discovery-Based Curriculum • Introduction to InquiryDrs. Oppenheimer & Roden • Integrated GeneticsDr. Caldwell

  5. New State-of-the Art Equipment • College of A&S Cost Share 120 compound microscopes 20 clinical-level microscopes & stereomicroscopes

  6. 1. Integrated Human Physiology Dr. Secor Hierarchical..Cells --> Organism Metabolism…...sum Mechanisms Performance Energy flux Two New Discovery-Based Courses

  7. 2. Immunology Dr. LeBlanc Additive nature of scientific inquiry Foundational concepts Combine techniques Question based Two New Discovery-Based Courses

  8. 2. Alabama Science in Motion • Professor teams work together and attend professional meetings about science education • New interdisciplinary experiments • Present to teachers • Serving 66 schools, 259 classes and 5,522 students

  9. Robbie Smithson Biology 143 Terrie Boman Lloyd 51 Biology & Chemistry Vans

  10. 3. Integrated Science • CCET - film and print material for middle school • Live-Web based instruction • New format to access more schools:Involving Students; Teachers,Parents and Administrators

  11. Serving 1,000 teachers and130,000 students http://expeditions.is.ua.edu/

  12. 4. Hughes Rural Science Scholars Program • Encouraged to return to rural setting as professionals • Introduced to what college is about • Other students are models • Explore careers • What it takes to succeed

  13. Contributing to Life in Rural Alabama • Our Challenge as educators……63 of Alabama’s 67 counties do not have the medical personnel or facilities to provide the level of care considered basic by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  14. Principles of Biology I College Course Work Creative Writing

  15. 5. Hughes Undergraduate Research Intern Program • Seminar - Spring • Research Workshop -May • Summer + AA Research • Journal-JOSHUA • Presentations:Posters, Meetings, Publications • Visiting Scientists Series

  16. A Partnership

  17. Hughes Undergraduate Research Interns - 2002

  18. Field Trips

  19. Hughes Posters 1999 “Of COURSE it is a hypha”

  20. 2002 HHMI Support • $860,000 Undergraduate Research • $178,000 Discovery-Based Courses • $44,000 Faculty Develop Curriculum • $300,000 Rural Science Scholars Program (High School Bridge) • $140,000 Alabama Science in Motion • $200,000 Integrated Science CCET(Middle Schools)

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