Instead, it reflects a long-standing commitment by the university to biological literacy. Every student at Chicago has to take a year of biology, including a laboratory. The funds have been used to acquire equipment for undergraduate laboratory courses in organismal and structural biology and to enable students to carry out their own research on a host of biological topics. The grant also enables the university to offer research programs for local high school students and to host science seminars for high school students and teachers. Many of these efforts seek especially to attract talented women and minority students.
Students can walk down the hall and see research they just learned about in a lecture.
They can use research-class computers in the basement. And the blending of undergraduate, graduate, and medical instruction within a single division of the university makes its easier for them to move beyond textbook learning and get involved in research themselves. By bridging the worlds of the classroom and the laboratory, Chicago inspires many talented undergraduates to pursue careers in science. D. programs, concurs. An immersion in biology has placed these three students on the path to science, even though the final destination is unclear.