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For many years, MCB has offered a number of outreach programs for high school biology teachers and their students. The broad focus of these programs has been to foster an excitement for doing science that encourages students to continue their studies in biology at the advanced level. MCB Outreach seeks to bring teachers up to date on the newest discoveries in the research areas of the MCB faculty.
In Summer 2004, the MCB/HHMI Outreach Program will again offer a ten-day workshop for high school biology teachers and curriculum directors. The summer workshop will integrate faculty lectures with cutting-edge project laboratories on Immunology and Infectious disease. During the second week, teacher participants will work collaboratively with multimedia professionals to develop animations based on concepts in Immunology. [more]
Recent Programs
- Spring 2004: the MCB/HHMI Outreach Program opened university teaching laboratories, and expanded its offerings of advanced workshops to high school biology classes. New laboratories in neuroscience and fruit fly genetics and beahvior were added The workshops were led by MCB graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and professors in conjunction with visiting teachers. [more]
- Fall 2003: Building on the presentations of the Summer 2003 High School Outreach Program, the MCB fall lecture series focused on the biology of cancer with five new lectures. Teachers were invited to attend these lectures, each one followed by a laboratory that featured exercises to help the participating teachers to transfer lecture information into use in the high school curriculum. [more]
- Summer 2003: the summer component of the MCB/HHMI Outreach Program included a ten-day workshop for high school biology teachers and curriculum directors. The summer workshop is designed to integrate faculty lectures with cutting-edge project laboratories on a specific topic in molecular and cellular biology. In addition, teacher participants work collaboratively with multimedia professionals to develop videos and animations based on the workshop. [more]
- Spring 2003: the MCB/HHMI Outreach Program opened university teaching laboratories, offering advanced workshops to high school biology classes. The workshops were led by MCB graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in conjunction with visiting teachers. [more]
- Fall 2002: the MCB/HHMI Outreach Program offered a series of lectures and laboratories on developmental biology entitled "Embryology and Development: Genetic and Molecular Perspectives". The series consisted of 5 sessions, each of which included a faculty lecture, followed by a laboratory exercise with MCB faculty and graduate students. [more]
MCB Outreach Committee
Robert Lue
Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director of HHMI
Undergraduate & Outreach Programs at Harvard
Tara Bennett
MCB-HHMI Outreach Coordinator, former biology and AP biology teacher from
Norwell High School and Framingham High School
Susan L. Johnson
MCB-HHMI Curriculum Consultant, former biology and AP biology teacher from
Newton South High School
J. Woodland Hastings
Paul C. Manglesdorf Professor of the Natural Sciences, MCB Outreach Committee Chair
Jack Howard
Manager, Biology Teaching Labs at Harvard
Kimberly Kriz
MCB Associate Director, External Relations
Elizabeth Sorrell
Belmont Public Schools Science Chair, biology and AP biology teacher
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