January Intersession 2012
The Citizen Science program will introduce students to science and the ideas of the scientific method. The program is designed to promote science literacy and will utilize the theme of infectious diseases, the importance of infectious disease in a community, and the impact that infectious disease outbreaks and subsequence management can have on our global society. The curriculum will range from conducting a laboratory experiment and analyzing a scientific problem to modeling potential solutions to that problem. The program will merge three distinct, yet thematically interwoven, rotations, each designed to address the large question:
How can we reduce the global burden of infectious disease?
What causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics?
How do you successfully
treat an infection in a large aquatic population?
What makes an infectious
agent infectious?