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

• Models for bringing teaching & research closer together; improve science education at all levels; connectivity

• Expose to increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the life sciences

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

1. Discovery-Based Curriculum

• Introduction to InquiryDrs. Oppenheimer & Roden

• Integrated GeneticsDr. Caldwell

New State-of-the Art Equipment

• College of A&S Cost Share 120 compound microscopes 20 clinical-level microscopes & stereomicroscopes

Two New Discovery-Based Courses

• 1. Integrated Human Physiology

• Dr. Secor• Hierarchical..

Cells --> Organism

• Metabolism…...sum

• Mechanisms

• Performance

• Energy flux

Two New Discovery-Based Courses

• 2. Immunology

• Dr. LeBlanc

• Additive nature of scientific inquiry

• Foundational concepts

• Combine techniques

• Question based

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

Biology & Chemistry Vans

• Robbie Smithson

• Biology 143

• Terrie Boman

• Lloyd 51

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

Serving 1,000 teachers and130,000 students

http://expeditions.is.ua.edu/

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

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.

College Course Work

• Principles of Biology I

Creative Writing

5. Hughes Undergraduate Research Intern Program

• Seminar - Spring

• Research Workshop -May

• Summer + AA Research

• Journal-JOSHUA

• Presentations:Posters, Meetings, Publications

• Visiting Scientists Series

A Partnership

Hughes Undergraduate Research Interns - 2002

Field Trips

Hughes Posters 1999 “Of COURSE it is a hypha”

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)