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Dauphin Island
Sea Lab Receives $12,000 Grant from Shell Oil for Minority Teaching
Fellowships in 2004
Dec 15, 2004 |
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Contact: Lisa Young 251/861-7509 For the third year in a row, Shell Oil is supporting the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in its efforts to recruit and train minority college students to enter the field of marine science education. An official from Shell Oil recently gave the Sea Lab a check for $12,000 to support this innovative program. Minority students have traditionally been underrepresented in science education as both instructors and students, and this is especially true for marine science education. To address this issue, the Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Shell Oil Foundation began offering summer teaching fellowships in 2002 to minority students interested in education. In 2004, two students will be chosen from the University of Alabama and the University of West Alabama to come to the Sea Lab for ten weeks where they will take part in numerous educational workshops, learn teaching methods and curriculum planning specific to marine science, assist the educators in conducting workshops, and in some cases, direct portions of the classes themselves. As a participant in the 2003 program, Harold Francis from Alabama State University said, "I love how I got to work and learn at the same time." Will Bolds, also of the 2003 program and a student at the University of South Alabama, added, "I want to be a role model, so kids can say, ŒOh, I donšt have to be a rapper; I can use my brain and be a scientist.š" After his fellowship, Bolds stated his plans on attaining his Ph.D. and teaching marine biology to college students. |
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