DNA Microarray Summer Workshop for Undergraduate HBCU, HSI and Tribal College Faculty to be held at Morehouse College in August 2005

尽管越来越多的国家认识到改革本科生物教育的必要性，但历史上黑人学院和大学(HBCU)、西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)和部落学院的反应相对较慢。反应时间缓慢主要是因为缺乏资源，包括教师培训和专业发展机会。这项提议的目标是为48名教职员工举办微阵列技术研讨会，教授比例较低的少数族裔本科生。研讨会将于2005年夏天在莫尔豪斯学院举行，将由基因组积极教学联盟(GCAT；www.davidson.edu/GCAT)成员A.Malcolm Campbell博士(Davidson College)和Edison R.Fowlks博士(Hampton University)组织。该研讨会将是NSF资助的第三次GCAT研讨会，将提供关于微阵列的背景信息和读物、软件培训、微阵列数据分析的实践经验以及DNA微阵列杂交的湿实验室经验。预计研讨会参与者将把微阵列技术纳入他们的课程。参与者将能够为他们的学生提供使用真实DNA微阵列数据的机会，这样他们就可以第一手发现生物学是一门信息科学，而生物体是复杂的系统。HBCU、HSIS和部落学院(TCS)的教员将被招募参加。

Although there is growing national recognition of the need to reform undergraduate biology education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Tribal Colleges have comparatively been slow to respond. Slow response time primarily is due to a lack of resources, including faculty training and professional development opportunities. The goal of this proposal is to conduct microarray technology workshop for 48 faculty teaching high proportions of underrepresented minority undergraduates. The workshop, to be held at Morehouse College in summer 2005, will be organized by Dr. A. Malcolm Campbell (Davidson College) and Dr. Edison R. Fowlks (Hampton University), members of the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT; www.davidson.edu/GCAT). The workshop will be the third NSF-supported GCAT workshop and will provide background information and readings on microarrays, software training, hands-on experience with microarray data analysis, and wet-lab experiences with DNA microarray hybridization. Workshop participants are expected to integrate microarray technology into their courses. Participants will be able to provide their students the opportunity to work with real DNA microarray data so they can discover first hand how biology is an informational science, and organisms are complex systems. Faculty at HBCUs, HSIs, and Tribal Colleges (TCs) will be recruited for participation.