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APPLICATION QUICK LINKS: Inside Cancer Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online NYC Teacher Professional Development Silencing Genomes Workshop |
   Additional workshops will be listed as they are scheduled. Brochures are saved in PDF format. Download Adobe Reader here. ... for High School Teachers NYC Teacher Professional Development at Harlem DNA Lab This program will enable New York City teachers to deliver hands-on, inquiry-based experiments in genetics and biotechnology. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 8th through 12th grade teachers are trained to implement lab activities to complement the NYC Scope and Sequence, Life Science, Living Environment, and AP Biology curricula. Certificate Training is four 6-hour sessions (taken individually or in a 4-day block) scheduled during the spring and summer. Leadership Training is a 60-hour course held over two weeks in the summer. Participants can apply to the NYC Department of Education for P credits or professional development hours. Visit the Harlem DNA Lab site for more information: http://www.dnalc.org/harlemdnalab/  ... for High School and College Educators
This 1-day workshop introduces educators to up-to-date neuroscience research using interactive, web-based experiments. From molecular signals, to neural circuits, to anatomical structures of the brain, participants explore thinking and disorders of thinking at different levels of complexity. A new Internet site, Genes to Cognition Online (www.g2conline.org), provides resources to teach the complex workings of the brain, including unique learning aids that allow students to build concept maps to visualize the learning progress. February 17-18, 2009 – Contra Costa County Office of Education, Pleasant Hill, CA March 6-7, 2009 – Harlem DNA Lab, East Harlem, NY March 9-10, 2009 – Fralin Biotechnology Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA *April 18, 2009 – University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO May 1-2, 2009 –Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ June 11-12, 2009* – Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK August 7, 2009 – Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI August 28, 2009 – John Jay College, New York, NY September 25, 2009 – Alamance Community College, Graham, NC October 10, 2009 – Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA November 6, 2009** – Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ November 20, 2009** – Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, NH *1.5-day workshop **Application not yet online, will be available after Labor Day.
This 1-day workshop introduces educators to innovative ways to teach cancer biology and how our increasing knowledge is changing the battle against this devastating disease. An associated, innovative Internet site, Inside Cancer (www.insidecancer.org), supports the curriculum with authoritative and engaging multimedia content that is aligned to standards. A unique teaching tool, the Inside Cancer Teacher Center helps participants build and share lesson plans and customize multimedia presentations that focus on syllabus-centered instruction. January 23, 2009 – Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL February 19, 2009 – Contra Costa County Office of Education, Pleasant Hill, CA March 12, 2009 – Fralin Biotechnology Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA March 28, 2009 – Harlem DNA Lab, East Harlem, NY April 17, 2009 – University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO April 25, 2009 –Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ May 22, 2009 – Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Minneapolis MN May 31, 2009 – Bossier Parish Community College, Bossier, LA June 6, 2009 – St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO June 10, 2009 – Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK June 20, 2009 – North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC July 31, 2009 – Howard University, Washington, D.C. August 8, 2009 – Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI August 14, 2009 – Houston Community College Northwest, Houston, TX August 29, 2009 – John Jay College, New York, NY September 26, 2009 – Alamance Community College, Graham, NC October 9, 2009 – Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA November 5, 2009** – Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ November 21, 2009** – Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, NH **Application not yet online, will be available after Labor Day. ... for College Educators
This 5-day workshop on RNA interference (RNAi) brings college educators up-to-the-minute with this revolutionary discovery. In labs and computer work, participants learn all the steps needed to go from genomic sequence information to induce RNAi to silence individual genes in the roundworm C. elegans. This workshop provides great individual labs and templates for independent student projects. June 8-12, 2009 – St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO June 1-5, 2009 California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA June 22-26, 2009 – North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC August 3-7, 2009 – Howard University, Washington, D.C. August 17-21, 2009 – Houston Community College Northwest, Houston, TX ... with Collaborating Institutions  iPlant Summer Teacher Fellowship 2009at the University of Arizona This is a six-week, paid summer research experience for high school biology, mathematics, and computer science/technology teachers to explore computational topics related to plant sciences. Teachers will work alongside Univerisity of Arizona researchers along with collaborating in an interdisciplinary fashion with other high school educators. (The iPlant Collaborative is headed by the University of Arizona and will engage the research community to identify a number of "grand challenges" in the plant sciences, utilizing computer, computational science, and cyberinfrastructure solutions.) |
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