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Nobel prizes
   The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assemblyat Karolinska Institutet from the estate of Alfred Nobel to individuals who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind... one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine, and one part was dedicated to the person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement.
- Physiology or Medicine Chemistry

       -   Today in Science History

       - Women In Science, Assoc. Women in Science, & Biographies of Women in Science

-   Sense About Science - scientific evidence issues: promoting evidence & scientific
                                                                    reasoning in the public discussion

- Stem cells - new protocol

- the sequencing of human genome is complete (April 14, 2003)

LABORATORY...
Bil 151 is a CO-REQUISITE course.
Please make sure that you are enrolled in a lab section.

WORKSHOPS... The Workshops are Social Learning Communities where student participation is the basis for learning. Your role is that of a learner and also a teacher, to help others in your learning community benefit from your knowledge.

     Mastering biology involves "learning" the content of the subject matter, but also "learning to be" a biologist... a full participant in the field of biology, which means acquiring the practices and norms established by the practioneers of biology, kind of like apprenticing or supervised graduate study. The idea is to engage new students, as yourself, in learning by productive inquiry.

     Your Social Learning Community will do practice problem sets that are designed to help you become more familiar with the material presented in class in a student oriented environment. The Workshops employ Peer Led Team Learning - a concept where other student Biology majors facilitate a series of practice problems for currently enrolled students. As you review the lecture material, your Peer Mentor will encourage engagement by asking questions or initiating discussions about the material. Lecture provides the content, the Peer Mentor stimulates social learning interaction, and you gain a better understanding through focused conversation.

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      Fall:
         The 1st work shop will meet on Tuesday after the first week
         of classes, at 5:00pm in Cox Science Lecture Hall, room 126.

         You will be divided up into groups of 10 to 11 students
         to form a Learning Community. Practice problems and
         exercises will be provided to you as a group to solve.
         A Peer Led Team Learning Mentor will provide guidance.

     Summer:
             Workshops will meet on lab days (Tuesday & Friday) from
             11:00am to 11:30am at a place of your groups choosing.

             go to the workshop web page*

        The second workshop will be held on the
              third Tuesday of the semester at 5:00pm.

              Be sure to meet your Peer Mentor at the room location
              they set up with you at your first meeting.

              The second set of practice questions will deal with basic
              inorganic chemistry.

              Please read chapter 2 before coming to the workshop.
              It will greatly help you to be able to do the exercises.

go to the workshop web page*

How to Design an Experiment Assignment.

Special Class ANNOUNCEMENT...

There is 1 handout for today

Say... Hello to your neighbor & then one of you come down & pick up

1. a one-page course syllabus

Workshop evaluations & test answer sheets
are available down front

Please pick up a test scantron & Eval form

fill out scantron with ID# & your Name

if you do a workshop evaluation,
then answer question # 76 by filling in
choice a) & you'll get extra credit

we'll collect them at the end of the test today.

	click on a link below: