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  • Both projects, says Deborah E. Allen, the NSF grant manager who worked with them, aim to "capture authentic research experiences within biology courses" at the undergraduate level
  • The hope is that a project like Mr. Boyle's can bring some of the same benefits to a larger number of students.
  • Mr. Boyle's project is a direct descendant of a project that a Davidson College biology professor, A. Malcolm Campbell, has been running for a decade. In Mr. Campbell's project, called the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching,
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  • "There's a benefit of working in a community," Mr. Campbell says. In many cases, "you're the only one doing this on your campus, and it's always so much easier to have a network of people so that when you get in a jam you can send out an e-mail."
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