Project Activities
The project included three major types of activities, each targeting a different aspect of faculty development: research experiences; curriculum development experiences; and integrated learning local outreach workshops.
Research and Curriculum Development Experiences: The program offered summer research fellowships for teaching faculty at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. These Physiology Insights fellowships provided opportunities to participate in an ongoing biomedical research project with an APS member and to develop inquiry-based, hands-on lessons to be used in the undergraduate classroom/lab. Each fellow actively participated in research for 7-9 weeks, working with an APS researcher, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. Research experiences were active, hands-on engagement in either an ongoing research project in the host researcher’s laboratory and/or an independent research project developed for the Physiology Insights fellow.
Each fellow also attended a retreat focused on effective teaching strategies. Finally, fellows also developed an inquiry-based lab/lesson for use in their classrooms and for distribution via the APS web site (see Resources Developed at left).
Overall, six faculty members participated in the summer research fellowships program, including faculty from 2- and 4-year colleges and adult high schools. The participants, their institutions, and their research hosts are listed below.
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Physiology Insights Summer Research Fellows and Hosts
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Year
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Insights Fellow
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Research Host
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1998
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Jill Crowder
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI
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Jeffrey L. Osborn
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
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1998
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Canzater Gilliespie
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI
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Andrew S. Greene
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
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1998
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Rita Hoots
Yuba College
Woodland, CA
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Barbara A. Horwitz
University of California – Davis
Davis, CA
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1998
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James Miller
Goshen College
Goshen, IN
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Richard S. Manalis
Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN
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2000
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Turner Coggins
Charles County Community College
La Plata, MD
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Adam Myers
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
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2000
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Sharon C. Roseman
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Hickory, NC
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James Smith & Michael Aschner
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
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Integrated Learning Local Outreach Workshops: The APS also sponsored six Integrated Learning Local Outreach Workshops for faculty teaching at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. These workshops took place in a number of venues and with different specific content foci. However, certain guiding principles underlined each workshop. Specifically, each workshop involved 20-45 life science faculty members in multi-day workshops. Each workshop included activities/sessions on:
- Content, including update(s) on current research findings;
- Pedagogy, including explorations of effective methods; and
- Curriculum Knowledge, including reform efforts and online and organizational resources.
Details on each workshop are included in the Physiology Insights Project Final Report (see Resources below).
Physiology Insights Final Report
This report provides an overview of the project including program activities and evaluation results.