Stimulating Attitudes of Inquiry
Through Problem-Based Learning and
Undergraduate Research
Hal White, Project Director
David Usher, Asst Director
Jacqueline Aldridge, NUCLEUS
Lisa Robinson, Staff Asst
Laura Reiter, Secretary
UD HHMI Undergraduate
Science Education Program
Coordinated by
serves
sponsors
catalyzes
supports
promotes
that Integrates
NUCLEUS Program
emphasizes
Collaborates
with
HBCUs &
HHMI EXROP
Undergraduate
Research
by
for
Under-represented
Students in Science
Faculty Laboratories
Who participate
in the
in
Coordinates
with
Summer
Enrichment Program
Leads in
A key
element in
In its
Faculty
Development
TA Training
Course
National HHMI
QB Consortium
Is developing
a
BioCalculus
Course
Emphasized by
Other Programs incl.
Beckman Scholars
Research
Symposium
National
Scientific Meetings
…once you have learned how to ask questions -- relevant and appropriate
and substantial questions -- you have learned how to learn and no one can
keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
Niel Postman and Charles Weingartner
New Math Curriculum
in Quant. Biology
with
Integrative Seminars
and a
Course for
Peer Facilitators
Institute for Transforming
Undergraduate Education (ITUE)
Serving as
Workshop Leaders
for PLTL
General Chemistry I & II
Honors Introductory Biology,
Infectious Diseases,
or
Tutor Facilitators
for PBL
Capstone
Course
Influencing
in
That mimics
They later
attend
Is developing
In its
That
serves
Preparation for
trains
Math
Fellows
for
serves
Quantitative
Biology Initiative
incorporates
That drives
Undergraduate
Laboratories
That culminates
in a
At the 2006 Experimental Biology Meetings in San
Francisco, five UD students received awards in the
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology’s Undergraduate Poster Competition. Over the
past seven years Ud students have received more
awards in this competition than students from any
other school.
Active
Learning
a form of
Prelude to
>30 HHMI
Scholars
Undergraduate Research Office
National Poster Competition
Biological Sciences
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chemical Engineering
Mathematics, and Others
in
Introduction to Biochemistry
Thinkers are not limited by what they know, because they can always
increase what they know. Rather, they're limited by what puzzles them,
because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't
puzzle you.
Daniel Quinn
Advisory Board
Carlton Cooper, Biology
Prasad Dhurjati, Chem Eng
Steve Fifield, Educ. Res. Ctr
John Pelesko, Mathematics
Tatyana Polenova, Chemistry
Louis Rossi, Mathematics
When does a scientist become a scientist? It is not when a person knows
many facts and even understands in depth some aspect of the natural world. I
would suggest the transition occurs when curiosity about a phenomenon leads
to an inquiry for new knowledge. This can occur in a person with little or lots of
knowledge about a subject. It is an attitude of inquiry. James Bryant Conant