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

生物科学（61）多学科/校际合作经验使用重组酵母测定定量废水中的雌激素化合物项目是适应研究模型到一个可复制的教学模块和测试该模块在三个机构的三门课程。参与的学校包括私立综合性大学DeSales University、选择性学士学位机构Lafayette College和两年制公立社区学院Lehigh Carbon Community College。教学模块侧重于新兴的国家和全球环境问题，废水中雌激素水平的增加。 它是一种研究技术的改编，使用酵母酿酒酵母的重组菌株作为雌激素化学品的测试，最初由图兰-泽维尔生物环境研究中心的Tom Wiese和Charles米勒博士开发。 该单元同时被引入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Lafayette学院的环境工程课程。该项目的目标是通过让不同的学生在协作，多学科和校际学习体验中接触基础研究，提高学生在科学方面的学习。目前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推广的效力。

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.