Bridging the Gap: A Research-Based Approach for Teaching Interdisciplinary Science to Undergraduate Freshman Students

by: Jessica Sales, Dawn Comeau, Kathleen Liddle, Nikki Khanna, Lisa Perrone, Katrina Palmer, and David Lynn

A new program, On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers (ORDER), has been developed as a bridge across the ever-widening gap between graduate and undergraduate education in the sciences. This bridge is created by merging the needs of graduate/postdoctoral students to educate more interdisciplinary scholars about their research discoveries with the need for the entering freshman to understand the process of discovery and the scientific method.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 5/1/2006Stock # jcst06_035_06_36Volume 035Issue 06

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