Science and technology faculty members from some of the Virginia Community Colleges will form small interdisciplinary Learning Groups with science faculty from James Madison University to work on team-oriented projects. Each project group will consist of three or four participants and a Group Leader. The emphasis will be on learning particular methods, techniques, and/or instrumentation use which can be utilized in undergraduate classes. Particular areas include: Protein Purification, DNA Probes, Elemental, Ion, and Crystalline Analysis, Polycrystalline Fabrics, Microprocessing Programming, and Plant Tissue and Scanning Electron Microscopy. Development of Instructional Materials using both case studies and computer-driven courseware authoring have been built into the program. Priority will be given to faculty from the Virginia Valley Consortium. but others will be considered on a space available basis.
