Mentoring: Linking student interests to science curricula

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5858, 2007, Pages 1872-1873

  Denofrio, Lauren A ^a   Russell, Brandy ^a,c   Lopatto, David ^b   Lu, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; NETWORKING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STUDENT; TEACHING;

BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GRADUATE STUDENT; LEARNING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SELF REPORT; SHORT SURVEY; STUDENT;

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; CHEMISTRY; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; MENTORS; TEACHING;

EID: 37549071117     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150788     Document Type: Short Survey

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20. We wish to thank the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Award and the University of Illinois Provost's Initiative for Teaching Advancement for financial supports and teaching assistants, invited speakers, and industrial laboratories, whose names are listed in (14), for their help. We thank all of our students for their enthusiastic participation and feedback.