Educational philosophy:
The major idea underlying this Program is that students learn science best by actively engaging in it. This means more than conducting so-called "hands-on" activities, or solving artificial problems posed at the end of a chapter. Engaging in science, in our view, means investigating unsolved, challenging problems and discussing prospective solutions within a community. To that end, each of you will participate in a research project.

The Research Project:
We will be working with Artemia francisana, the brine shrimp. Each student will be assigned one or more clones that may contain an insert of an Artemia cDNA. Students will determine the size of the insert (if any), and sequence it. Most of the research will involve computer analysis of this sequence using the tools of bioinformatics.