Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant
Bowdoin College has been awarded a grant of $800,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to further undergraduate education and research in its life sciences departments. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is the nation's largest private supporter of science education from elementary school through postdoctoral studies. The highly competitive Hughes grants are awarded only once every four years to institutions serving primarily undergraduates.
Science & Society Lecture Series Public Symposia on "Science and Society," a bioethical discussion with leading guest speakers. 
TUESDAY, April 1, 2008 - 7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College Margaret (Peg) Riley, President, Massachusetts Academy of Sciences, Professor, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst "Applying ecological and evolutionary theory to meet the challenge of antibiotic resistance"
The lecture is open to the public and admission is free. For more information call 725-3582.
Student Research & Broadening Funding for supplies and annual stipends will enable Bowdoin students to conduct detailed research in the areas of life sciences. The grant further provides for a new laboratory practicum course to educate students in the latest laboratory techniques and experimental design methods.
Curriculum Innovations One example is the development of a comprehensive database on the biological life at the college's Coastal Studies Center. The database will be used to create a 3-D "virtual world" which students will use to explore the center in real time via the internet. Students will help construct and will contribute data to the database throughout their four years at Bowdoin.
Outreach Programs Another project under this grant will invite Maine science teachers, parcticularly from rural schools, to a week-long summer program at Bowdoin to introduce experimental scientific techniques to Maine secondary school students. as well as a course to prepare Bowdoin graduates to teach science courses in elementary and secondary school.
HHMI's grants program supports science education in the United States and a select group of researchers in other countries, complementing its principal mission: the conduct of research in cell biology, computational biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience and structural biology with its own scientific teams. For more information on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, click on: http://www.hhmi.org/