Undergraduate Urban Metagenomics Research Moduleâ•€

Undergraduate Urban Metagenomics Research Module†

Summer workshop in metagenomics: one week plus eight students equals gigabases of cloned DNA.

We designed a week-long laboratory workshop in metagenomics for a cohort of undergraduate student researchers. During this course, students learned and utilized molecular biology and microbiology techniques to construct a metagenomic library from Puerto Rican soil. Pre-and postworkshop assessments indicated student learning gains in technical knowledge, skills, and confidence in a research envi...

A Web-Scaffolding GIS Method of Spatial Planning with Rural Buildings for Teaching/Learning in Higher Education Research

In higher education research, computer and information technologies are getting increased consideration and attention. These technologies can be integrated into the design education through taking into account a scaffolding mechanism, which will support activities of teaching/learning in a distributed environment. This research presents a digital-based scaffolding geographic information systems...

Educational factors that influence the urban-rural distribution of health professionals in South Africa: a case-control study.

SETTING The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resource-constrained settings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the influence of educational factors on the choice of rural or urban sites of practice of health professionals in South Africa. METHO...

Metagenomics: a call for bringing a new science into the classroom (while it's still new).

The pace of research and the development of new areas of focus in biology are increasing at breathtaking speed. Unfortunately, exciting new areas of science typically do not appear in science classrooms and textbooks until many years after their inception. This pattern leaves undergraduate, and especially high school, biology education lagging behind scientific advances. The result is that too ...