Kenyon College

**MicrobeWiki**
Biological Physics
Evolution Modeling Course
Peer Tutors: Report
BIO 2010: A Response
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
HHMI Kenyon College
Undergraduate
Biological Sciences
Education Grant


Kenyon College Science Division
Grants from the HHMI Undergraduate Science Education Program
The Program Director welcomes questions on any aspect of our program.

Curricular Innovation at Kenyon

Amino World: Protein Structure in Second Life

Biologist Joan Slonczewski and programmer Daniel Barich '05 used Second Life to develop a virtual-world teaching tool on protein form, Amino World, hosted by the American Chemical Society on ACS Island.

  

Evolution and Creationism:
The Controversy

Psychologist and computer scientist Dick Hoppe developed Evolution and Creationism (INDS 391) to examine the socio-cultural, legal, and religious controversies surrounding evolution.

Math-Science Skills Center
Report at U. Mich. 2007

Peer tutors supervised by faculty
help develop quantitative skills.
Pre-first-year Data Analysis course
2007 Evaluation Report on MSSC

Middle School Teachers
Workshops: 2006, 2005, 2002
Laptop PC training: 2007

Equipment for Teaching
and Undergraduate Research

Students analyze real-time PCR
data on toxin-induced genes
Laptop PCs in class
Real-Time PCR
Fluorimeter

An Honors course in
Introductory Psychology

Functional MRI of human brain

Undergraduate Researchers at Kenyon
Computational Research
in biochemistry

Mary Kloc '06 and Sheryl Hemkin, Chemistry Dept
Collaborative Microarray
Research, Kenyon/UW-Madison Geetha Kannan and Jessie Wilks, undergraduate researchersGeetha Kannan '07 and Jessie Wilks, '09,
Biology Department
Projects: 2007, 2006; 2005; 2004
Faculty Projects with Students

Biology Lab Tutorials
By Pat Heithaus

Rat Anatomy-- Human EMG
Phenotypic Plasticity in Oaks

NMR: An Introduction

Bruker 300 MHz NMR

Bioorganic chemist Mo Hunsen
helps a student use the
Bruker 300MHz NMR.

MicrobeWiki
 Mount Vernon Middle School Teachers Science Workshop
Faculty at any university may assign students to author pages on microbial diversity, assisted by Kenyon site manager. Includes Microbial Biorealm and Viral Biorealm.

Student Projects and Tutorials

CAP binding DNA Biomolecules
at Kenyon
Tutorials by students
Guide to Introductory Biology
Success in Intro Biology:
A Student's Guide

Cat Anatomy Tutorial Cat Anatomy Tutorial
Linked by 100+
Web sites

Summer Research Posters and Alumni Survey
Course Materials on the Web

PHYS 218 Dynamical Systems in Scientific Computing

BIOL 103 Biology in Science Fiction

BIOL 109
Intro Biology Lab
Reading Primary Literature in Biology

Mendelian Flowers and Plasmid Analysis:
Download here. Authored by Dyann Schmidel

Spanish/English Medical Language:
Medical Spanish/Inglés Medico

Pre-first-year Data Analysis course
Help entering first-year students succeed

Science Fiction Perspectives:
Biology in Science Fiction
Genomics and SF
The Future Biology of Reproduction

Presentation at Program Directors Meeting,  2000
Archived Program Reports: 1999, 1998, 1997
Kaplan NewsweekKaplan/Newsweek
in 2007 named Kenyon a "New Ivy" for its academic program, where students often double-major in biology and the humanities.