Dr. Hare-Harris awarded TALE teacher-scholar grant

Dr. Abby Hare-Harris
 Dr. Abby Hare-Harris, assistant professor, received a Teacher-Scholar grant from Bloomsburg University's Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her proposal is entitled "Implementation of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience in Bioinformatics as part of the Genomics Education Partnership Project." The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) is a collaborative research effort between Washington University in St. Louis and a growing number of undergraduate institutions nationwide. The GEP organizes research projects and provides training workshops for university faculty to facilitate the implementation of  Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) into their curriculum. The goals of the GEP research projects are 1) to integrate genomics into the undergraduate biology curriculum, 2) create a research experience within the academic year curriculum, and 3) publish results of both research in genomics and science education. Participating students learn to take raw sequence data to high quality finished sequence, and to annotate genes and other features, leading to analysis of a question in genomics and research publication. Dr. Hare-Harris will incorporate GEP projects into  Bioinformatics, Biology 435/535 in the Spring 2020 semester. This implementation which will increase the number of undergraduate students who complete a high impact practice research experience in genomics at Bloomsburg University.. As a faculty participant in the GEP, Dr. Hare-Harris will attend the GEP Faculty Training Workshop and GEP Faculty Alumni Workshop to learn novel ways to implement research-based projects into her courses. 

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