A Multidisciplinary/Intercollegiate Collaborative Experience Using a Recombinant Yeast Assay to Quantify Estrogenic Compounds in Wastewater

生物科学(61)使用重组酵母分析来量化废水中的雌激素化合物的多学科/校际合作经验项目正在将一个研究模型改造成一个可复制的教学模块，并在三个机构的三门课程中测试该模块。参与的学校包括德塞勒斯大学(DeSales University)，一所私立综合性大学，拉斐特学院(Lafayette College)，一所选择性的学士学位院校，以及利哈伊碳社区学院(LeHigh Carbon Community College)，一所公立的两年制社区学院。教学单元侧重于废水中雌激素水平不断增加这一新出现的国家和全球环境问题。这是一项研究技术的改编，该技术使用重组的酵母菌株作为雌激素化学物质的测试，最初是由杜兰-泽维尔生物环境研究中心的汤姆·威斯和查尔斯·米勒博士开发的。该模块同时被引入到DeSales大学的环境科学课程、LeHigh Carbon社区学院的普通生物学课程和拉斐特学院的环境工程课程中。该项目的目标是通过让不同的学生在协作、多学科和大学间的学习体验中接触基础研究来改善学生在科学方面的学习。正在评估该单元对学生成绩的影响及其在各种科学教育环境中的推广效果。

Biological Sciences (61) The Multidisciplinary/Intercollegiate Collaborative Experience Using a Recombinant Yeast Assay to Quantify Estrogenic Compounds in Wastewater project is adapting a research model into a replicable instructional module and testing that module in three courses at three institutions. The schools participating include DeSales University, a private comprehensive university, Lafayette College, a selective baccalaureate institution, and Lehigh Carbon Community College, a public, two-year community college. The instructional module focuses on the emerging national and global environmental problem of increasing levels of estrogen in wastewater. It is an adaptation of a research technique using a recombinant strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a test for estrogenic chemicals that was originally developed by Drs. Tom Wiese and Charles Miller at the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. The module is being introduced concurrently into an environmental science course at DeSales University, a general biology course at Lehigh Carbon Community College, and an environmental engineering course at Lafayette College. The goal of the project is to improve student learning in the sciences by exposing diverse students to basic research in a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and intercollegiate learning experience. The impact of the module on student achievement and its efficacy for replication in a variety of science education settings is being assessed.