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Page Six T H E S U M M E R E C H O Monday, July 11, 1966 Microbiology Work 'Highly Concentrated' The Summer Institute for College Teachers of Microbiology Twenty-four persons from throughout the United States are participants in North Caro lina College’s five-week Summer Institute in Microbiology for College Teachers of Biology, Microbiology, or Bacteriology directed by Dr. Nell Hirschberg, professor of biology at NCC. The course, supported by a $29,370 grant from the National Science Foundation, an agency of the federal government, is designed as a “review of general and applied microbiology to up grade the teaching of microbiol ogy by stressing the fields which are changing most rapidly: mi crobial physiology, genetics and immunology.” In addition to Dr. Hirschberg, who is teaching basics of general microbiology, other members of the staff, and subjects taught, are Dr. Harry Gooder, Depart ment of Microbiology, Univer sity of North Carolina, microbial genetics; Dr. John Schwab, De partment of Microbiology, Uni versity of North Carolina, im munology ; Dr. Robert Wheat, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Cen ter, microbial physiology; and Dr. Michael John Phillip, De partment of Biology, John Car roll University, Cleveland, Ohio, applied microbiology. Dr. Phillip, a native of Trini dad, West Indies, was one of eight holders of the earned doc torate who were participants in the institute last year. Six of the current enrollees have doc torates. Each institute instructor teaches for one week during the five-week course. The work is highly concentrated, for, as Dr. Hirschberg said in a paper on the 1965 institute, read at a Los Angeles meeting of the American Society for Microbiol ogy, “The material of the first two weeks covered all of a stand ard textbook in college micro biology with the exception of two chapters: Immunology and Microbial Genetics. A minimum of two lectures were given daily and there were two laboratory sessions. In the laboratory, ap proximately three-fourths of a standard college course in micro biology was covered in the first two weeks.” Contending that “microbiol ogy is the most important off shoot of molecular biology, since it is concerned with uncovering the meaning of life itself,” Dr. Hirschberg stated, “We need to accept our responsibility” to prepare college teachers. “At the moment,” she de clared, “it is the style to teach one course in elementary micro biology in most liberal arts col leges. This is all right for a starter, but the work needs to be expanded so that microbiology can take its rightful place in biology.” In the institute, North Caro lina is represented by six par ticipants, Pennsylvania by four. and Missouri by three. The fol lowing states have one enrollee each: Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Oregon, New York, Delaware, Texas, Massachusetts, Wiscon sin, New Jersey and South Carolina. -i MICROBIOLOGISTS IN ACTION—Photographs above show activities of participants in the NSF Institute for College Teachers of Microbiology. TOP ROW, FROM LEFT: Dr. Nell Hirschberg director of the institute, demonstrates cultures to three of the Ph.D. participants and to Dr. C. L. E. Monroe, special lecturer for the week; three participants perform microbial growth curve tech niques; Dr. Michael Phillip, assistant director of the institute, explains the use of different types of culture tubes to six participants who hold the doctor’s degree. MIDDLE, FROM LEFT: Dr. Hirschberg demonstrates fermentation tubes; a group discusses density of growth; Sister Eymard demonstrates types of cultures to three other participants. BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: Dr. Phillip discusses the measurement of growth; three participants discuss microbiological techniques; Dr. Phillip demon strates the measurement of density with the Klett instru ment while four other participants look on.
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