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CBE Life Sci Educ 8(4): 278-282 2009
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.09-07-0052
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Non-STEM Undergraduates Become Enthusiastic Phage-Hunters

Steven M. Caruso, James Sandoz, and Jessica Kelsey

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250

Monitoring Editor: Julio Turrens

Address correspondence to: Steven M. Caruso (scaruso{at}umbc.edu).

To increase science literacy and appreciation among nonscience majors, we offered a course in which 20 non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) undergraduates participated in a unique, two-semester research experience. Each student isolated and characterized his or her own bacteriophage from soil samples. One bacteriophage was selected for sequencing and together, the class annotated the genome of the newly sequenced bacteriophage. The class produced a group poster and gave PowerPoint presentations, and one student presented the joint work at a science symposium.






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