Summer Programs:

Academy for High School Students

Bridge to Science Excellence Program for first and second year Earlham College Students 
--link here to see the internships from Fall, 01

Research Opportunities with Earlham Faculty on campus and with Earlham Alumni in their Home Labs
 
 

Academic Year Programs:

Course Revisions

Tutoring in the Sciences

Faculty Development

On-campus Activities

Academy Reunion for class of 2001

In 2001, Earlham was notified that it would receive a total of 1.1 million dollars over the next four years from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). This award was the third made to Earlham by HHMI. 

The new award has allowed us to continue several programs that were developed under the previous HHMI grants. 
 

We will continue to offer a Summer Academy for high school students. This program is for rising high school juniors. In the summer of 2003, Dr. Michael Deibel, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, will teach this course.

We will also continue our Bridge Program which includes  a Summer Bridge course followed by a fall course that involves an internship for the students. In the summer of 2002, we had two sophomore students and seven first year students. The course was taught by Dr. Amy Mulnix and Dr. John Howell and once again focused on the physics and biology of light. Our outstanding TAs included three students from previous Bridge programs:  Hannah Chick, Justin Fuller and Seth Hopper. The students  continued their work with Dr. Amy Mulnix in chemistry this fall. We are currently preparing for the Bridge Program in the late summer of 2003. If you would like information about this program, email Dr. Amy Mulnix (amymul@earlham.edu.).

The summer research program for Earlham undergraduates is also continued. In the summer of 2001, we placed 15 students in laboratories of either Earlham faculty or alums. In 2002, we placed 14 students in labs. We are currently making selections for the summer of 2003.  For more information follow the Research Opportunities link at the left.

We are also engaged in a variety of new activities.

Dr. Janet Russell joined us in July, 2001 as a Science Education Consultant. She will be involved with a variety of course revisions and with implementation of the tutoring program.  In the fall semester, Dr. Russel and Dr. Nathan Trueblood worked on a revision of Anatomy and Phsyiology. Link here for Nathan's homepage. Currently, Dr. Russell is working with Dr. Jennifer Zeibarth, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, on revisions to a lower level Statistics course.

In the spring semester, 2001, we instituted a pilot tutoring program in the introductory biology course: Cells, Genes and Inheritance. We continued that program in Introductory Chemistry  in the fall semester. Currently, we are using HHMI funds for the tutoring program in Cells, Genes and Inheritance.  The program allows us to hire teaching assistants who attend lectures and then run tutoring and supplementary sessions. In CGI this semester, we have Hannah Chick, Rachel Houtman, Stephen Jones and Lucy Martin helping us.

During this academic year faculty development in the use of new techniques has occurred mainly in the context of course revisions. In addition, Dr. Brent Smith attended a workshop on current technologies for measuring photosynthetic rates. Before the beginning of spring semester 2003, nine faculty from biology, chemistry, physics and computer science participated in a protein workshop.

We have helped Nathan Trueblood, a new faculty member in Biology, purchase a variety of computer based physiological equipment. These instruments have been used this academic year in the Anatomy and Physiology and Human Biology courses and in Independent Studies. Next summer the equipment will be integral to student-faculty research.

We have sponsored or co-sponsor a variety of activities this academic year, including events at the Cunningham Cultural Center. We have several activities planned for the Spring, 2003. See the On-campus activities link at the left.
 

Check out the links at the left for more information on these and other activities.

For more information, contact amymul@earlham.edu.