Computer Technology Integrated into Biology Curriculum

该项目的目标是将批判性思维和解决问题的能力融入到专业和非专业的生物学课程中，增加学生对独立研究的参与，并增加大学预科女性和少数民族学生进入生物科学职业的机会。为了支持这些目标，正在购置MacIIsi计算机工作站，这些工作站安装在生物学入门实验室和学生可以在其他时间使用的计算机设施中。计算机将用于对实验室实验数据进行交互分析，对教学实验室中过于昂贵或过于危险的实验进行模拟分析，用于独立学习和写作作业。

The goals of this project are to integrate critical thinking and problem solving skills into the biology program for majors and non-majors, increase student participation in independent research, and enhance the access of pre-college women and minority students to careers in the biological sciences. These goals are being supported with the acquisition of MacIIsi computer work stations installed in introductory biology laboratories and in a computer facility that students will have access to at other hours. The computers will be used for interactive analysis of data from laboratory experiments, simulated analyses of experiments that are too expensive or too dangerous to perform in the teaching laboratory, for independent study, and for writing assignments.