Bio class gets extreme makeover
New technology turns lecture-based course into interactive
experience

At a recent session of the undergraduate General
Biology I course, students clogged Homewood's Mudd
Auditorium seats from the front to its very rear rows. Not
a bad turnout for a class that three years earlier had had
trouble getting half its number to show up.
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Training the next leaders in public
safety
One word that perhaps best portrays SPSBE's Division
of Public Safety Leadership is innovation. How else to
describe an academic unit that in one year can host a
national meeting on gang violence (with prominent gang
leaders in attendance); conduct a ride through the
Gettysburg battlefield to teach leadership and management
principles; and place city, state and federal law
enforcement leaders from around the country into one
classroom.
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Scientists ponder whether stress affects skin
cancer
Does stress speed up the onset of skin cancer? The
answer, in mice anyway, appears to be yes. Scientists at
the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say that chronic
stress may speed up the process in those at high risk for
the disease.
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