$1.2 million awarded by HHMI for science education
MAY 2010 :: William & Mary received $1.2 mil- lion in funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as part of its nation- wide program to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education. The College was one of 50 research universities in 30 states and the District of Columbia selected in the latest round of four-year grants awarded through HHMI’s Precollege and Undergraduate Science Educa- tion Program. The program will have four major components: student research, faculty development, curriculum development, and outreach. The May 20 HHMI announcement marks
the fourth consecutive time William & Mary has received the funding, according to Margaret Saha, Chancellor Professor of Biology and director of the program at the College. Saha said the HHMI initiative at the College involves several departments, dozens of faculty members, and hundreds of students. The program’s versatility is one of its strengths, she said, noting that there is a strong outreach component to the program that will benefit high school science labs and students transitioning to college. For exam- ple, working with existing precollege programs, the grant will help bring students from disadvantaged backgrounds
In this HHMI-funded lab, William & Mary students work through the polymerase chain reaction, an advanced technique that makes copies of DNA for later study.
to campus for several weeks before their first semester at William & Mary. The nation’s largest private funder of science education,
HHMI has spent $1.6 billion since 1985 to reform life sciences education from elementary through graduate school.
VIMS oyster study confirms
early Jamestown drought JUNE 2010 :: A study of 400-year-old oyster shells from North America’s first permanent English colony confirms that a harsh drought plagued the early years of the Jamestown settlement. The investigation, led by researcher
An archeologist excavates 400-year-old oyster shells from the Jamestown well. 20 The College of William & Mary / President’s Report 2010 / THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Juliana Harding of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), used chemical signa- tures within oyster shells from an abandoned Jamestown well to reveal that the James River was much saltier between 1609 and 1612 than it is today and to better understand the chronology of the early years of the Jamestown colony. The interdisciplinary research by Hard- ing and Roger Mann, professor of fisheries science and director of VIMS Research and AdvisoryServices,was conductedinpartnership with Howard Spero (University of California, Davis); William Kelso M.A. ’64, Beverly Straube and their archaeological team with the James - town Rediscovery Project; and Gregory Herbert and Jennifer Sliko (University of South Florida).
STEPHEN SALPUKAS
COURTESY OF PRESERVATION VIRGINIA
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