COFC GETS 1.5 MILLION $ GRANT
Chemical Biology to be Added to Biochemistry Curriculum
On April 22, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that 48 of the nation's best undergraduate institutions will receive $60 million to help them usher in a new era of science education. The College of Charleston, a first-time HHMI grant recipient, will use part of its $1.5 million award to create "learning communities" focused on three interdisciplinary areas: computational biology, chemical biology, and neuroscience. Students with similar interests will study, take classes, and live together in these learning communities during their first year in school.
Professor Pamela Riggs- Gelasco will lead the chemsitry department's portion of this grant which includes adding both a new lecture and lab course and will bring us an additional faculty position.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
HHMI is the nation's largest private supporter of science education. It has invested more than $1.2 billion in grants to reinvigorate life science education at both research universities and liberal arts colleges and to engage the nation's leading scientists in teaching. In 2007, it launched the Science Education Alliance, which will serve as a national resource for the development and distribution of innovative science education materials and methods.
One of the world's largest philanthropies, HHMI is a nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. HHMI has an endowment of approximately $18.7 billion. Its headquarters are located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.