Sixty Nanometers Wide, 200 Million Light-Years Long: Infecting Classrooms & Research Labs with Bacteriophage
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Document Type
Lecture
Series/Event
Faculty Lectureship Award Series
Abstract
Do you know what bacteriophage are? Do you know why they are important in global health and disease? What would be the best way for you to learn about this: a lecture from me or isolating one, "seeing" it grow, talking about it with your friends, extracting its DNA, and identifying all of its genes? With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute we are acting on the hypothesis that biological learning is enhanced and retained more effectively by using the research laboratory as the classroom. Incoming freshmen now have the opportunity to do hands-on, scientifically relevant, real-world research on bacteriophage as a vehicle for learning about the natural world, with surprising results.
Publication Date
3-1-2012
Recommended Citation
Wertz, John, "Sixty Nanometers Wide, 200 Million Light-Years Long: Infecting Classrooms & Research Labs with Bacteriophage" (2012). University Events. 390.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/hh_av_university_events/390