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Cynthia Bauerle, Professor and Chair of Spelman College’s Biology Department in Atlanta, Georgia in a telephone interview. “Spelman is unique in the education landscape as a small liberal arts college, teachingteaching. One of those recipient institutions was “The grant is rather unique, in that they will be providing the training, reagents, and supplies to conduct the research,” said Dr. The funding will be spread over three years to each institution, and HHMI has committed $4 million to the effort over the next four years, with plans to add a dozen more institutions each year during that time. Institutions were split evenly between smaller academic institutions and institutions with an intensive research focus, to give a broader perspective to the program.Young scientists at 12 universitiesHoward Hughes Medical Institute December 11, 2007United States of America Education Alliance (SEA Program), which seeks to enhance the teachingTwenty students at each selected institution will take part in a year-long study in phage (bacterial virus) genomics, gathering samples of viruses from local soil and sequencing the DNA and RNA from the phages, then working in concert with the other parti grant arts
cipating institutions in comparing their data and drawing conclusions. The goal of the SEA Program is to immerse young scientists in true research at the outset of their education, rather than teach them using a standard cookbook, and giving them access to research tools usually