BIOL112

More Extra Credit Opportunities:
Keep checking back.....I'll add in events as I learn about them. Let me know if you have a suggestion for an EC opportunity.
Remember, all Extra Credit reports must by typed.

Standing offers:

Biology Department Seminars, most Monday's at noon in 239 SCIC - check the second floor for flyers

Read and critique any primary literature paper.

Make a REAL contribution to science through the Folding@Home project, run by Stanford University.
This is a distributed computing project that essentially links many personal computers together to make
a gigantic super-duper-supercomputer. The project is working to determine how proteins fold, or don't.....

Get engaged in a new internet-based service community, Hope+. The project is in beta right now, but you can contribute!

A few years ago I read an astonishing commentary on world poverty and hunger. I want you to know what is really
going on with 44% of the world's population. Yes, I said 44%. Click on this pdf file, and put the word "generational" in
the search line. Or else, scroll to page 21. Read every word of this commentary and give me some non-trivial feedback.
What can you do? What WILL you do? Reprinted with much appreciated permission from the CSA News magazine,
April 2009. Copyright ASA-CSSA-SSSA

Here's a somewhat different perspective - offered with no comment: http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3331

And a book recommend by a former SI leader:The End of Poverty by economist Jeffrey Sachs

Another book recommended by Dan - Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne

Volunteer to help our community's youth at the Shaw Unit of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Trident Area

Donate or participate in the College of Charleston Relay for Life - an effort to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
    I often see former students as team members!

Any volunteer service to help the community. Type up notes about your experience and how it might relate to biology.

Shadowing opportunities! Our dentist, orthodontist and oral surgeon all expressed eager willingness to have
student shadows! All three are outstanding practitioners. Contact their offices directly to try to work out
times and places.
    Dentist: Dr. Jeff Bayme
    Orthodontist: Dr. Lee Hershon
    Oral Sugeon: Dr. Lon Doles or omsa@jawsurgeons.net

REMEMBER - ALL EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE ON THE LAST DAY OF CLASS
though I encourage you to turn it in as you complete it

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LECTURE POWERPOINTS- you will need Microsoft PowerPoint to open these
NOTE: graphics have been removed to reduce file size and protect copyrights.
You can find similar graphics by using an image search engine. I will be editing these PowerPoints
throughout the semester, so be sure you are using a current version.