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Peggy Brickman

Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Office: 400 Biological Science Building
706-542-1690
Email: brickman@uga.edu

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	Mentoring Teaching Internships
	Laboratory Teaching Internship (ESCI 4100) 3 credits, S/U. For admission to the program, a minimum GPA of 2.5 is required and students must have completed BIOL 1108 before applying.
		Duties: Interns assist a graduate laboratory assistant in one, 2 hour, BIOL 1103L laboratory section each week. BIOL 1103L is a 1 credit hour laboratory course in molecular and cellular biology for nonscience majors. Interns will engage in small group instruction during the laboratory, give one to three pre-lab presentations during the semester, give and grade a few exams and assignments and attend a weekly prep meetings. In addition interns will attend a one-hour, weekly reflection seminar lead by professors in science education, chemistry and biology. Interested students need to fill out an application form (available in the Biology Advising Office, room 411 Biological Sciences. Students accepted into the program will be notified and cleared to register for 3 hours credit in ESCI 4100.
	Teaching Internship Program (PBIO 7360) provides opportunities for senior graduate students to obtain mentored, documented experience in preparing and delivering lectures and/or in leading class discussions.
		Cellular Biology Graduate student Carly Jordan developed two lectures for BIOL1103, Fall 2006, using her expertise in paristology to highlight the evolution of organelles in eukaryotic cells and recombinant DNA techniques. Carly is currrently preparing her lecture materials for publication on the National Center for Case Studies in Science Teaching Website.
	Research Projects
	Special Teaching Projects In Plant Biology (PBIO 7510) provides graduate students with an opportunity to enhance their teaching experience in initiating and conducting independent projects.
		Cara Gormally has been working for the past two years developing, testing, and writing novel inquiry-based laboratory exercises for non-science majors Introductory Biology (BIOL1103L). She co-presented and published one of the lab exercises at the 2006 Association of Biology Laboratory Education Meeting at Purdue. Cara is currently conducting research in the benefit of guiding prompts in student success in planning and executing their own experimental designs.
		Ava Howard is a co-developer and author of an inquiry laboratory manual for organismal Biology course for majors (BIOL1108L). She is currently working on a project to measure the effectiveness of sections of the course that work on the development of scientific questioning and scientific investigative design.