Biology Project Outreach

BP Bookmark

To increase awareness of The Biology Project at a local level, we have created a bookmark detailing the three Biology Project sites: The Biology Learning Center, The Biology Project itself, and Student Biology Web.

We hope that increasing awareness of these sites will encourage 1) faculty to incorporate these web-based learning materials into their curriculum 2) college students to use these web sites to learn biology 3) UA biology students to contribute academic publications to the Student Biology Web 4) high school teachers to direct their student to this web space 5) area high school students interested in biology to visit the sites and decide to come to UA.

At The University of Arizona, bookmarks have been distributed to undergraduate advising offices in biology (Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, as well as Pre-Med), members of the Undergraduate Biology Research Program, incoming freshman at the Biology Orientation, the Office of Minority Affair's Science and Math Learning Center, the Honor's Center, the Science Library, SALT Tutoring, UA summer orientation, and all faculty in the biological sciences.

Bookmarks will also be distributed to students enrolled in Biology 181 at The University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Many Arizona high school teachers who teach AP and Honors Biology are distributing these bookmarks to their students, and high school students attending Med Camp and Med-Start also received bookmarks to take home with them.

These bookmarks have also proved to be handy tools for distributing our URLs and information about our web sites at conferences and presentations. Bookmarks have been distributed at The Slice of LIfe '97 and Interop conferences, in addition to several local workshops and presentations.

Please contact Denice Warren at denicew@u.arizona.edu for more information on distributing BP bookmarks.

Funding for the Bookmark outreach was provided by the NSF Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education, the Biology Learning Center (as part of an HHMI grant), the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology at The University of Arizona, and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.