The growth of research at the chemistry-biology interface provides a unique opportunity to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in science and to educate science and nonscience students broadly in both chemical and biological sciences.
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Funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors program and the Dreyfus Foundation Special Grants Program to H.A.G. is gratefully acknowledged. S. Hatch (Director of General Chemistry Laboratories) and J.S. Baker (Visiting Scholar in the USS program) both have worked extensively on the development of the inquiry-based modules and S. Hatch has been primarily responsible for their implementation into the general chemistry program at Northwestern.
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Prior to developing the interdisciplinary module for general chemistry, we systematically reviewed what we were trying to accomplish through our General Chemistry laboratory experiments. (PDF 53 kb)
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The laboratory activities and final project within the Biosensors and Stress Module are designed to accomplish the specific learning outcomes identified in Supplementary Table 1. (PDF 55 kb)
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Godwin, H., Davis, B. Teaching undergraduates at the interface of chemistry and biology: challenges and opportunities. Nat Chem Biol 1, 176–179 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0905-176
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