Welcome to our 2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Improvement
Grant. As director, I encourage faculty and students to contact me and discover
ways you can get involved and contribute to the many programs this grant sponsors
at The University of Alabama.
In this grant we:
•Build and expand programs started in the 1998 grant
•Initiate new curricular developments
•Enter new partnerships with area high schools through Alabama Science in Motion.
Five programs are designed to:
• Increase the diversity of students attracted to careers in science and succeeding in their academic quest toward science careers;
• Enhance the quality of educational experiences in upper-level undergraduate courses with revised, problem-based laboratories
emphasizing "hands-on" and "minds-on" experiences
• Encourage rural Alabama high school students to go to college and professional or graduate school and return to rural areas as
physicians, nurses, teachers, pharmacists, or technicians or to enter research careers exploring solutions to rural problems;
• Improve resources available for teachers of middle school science, using the power of new technologies to engage student, teacher,
administrators, citizens, and other professionals in the educational process;
• Assist Alabama high school science teachers with updated and multidisciplinary experiments that integrate biology, chemistry,
physics, and mathematics in under served areas.
Explore with us as we build our programs: