Topics course.Instrument specific topics course designed for research students (special studies, honors, SURF, etc.) requiring access to microscope equipment in the Center for Microscopy and Imaging (CMI). Each semester, three six-week courses are offered. All students meet the first two weeks to discuss their projects and the last week to present their work. During the remaining three, students learn how to operate a microscope independently (see topics). Participants are expected to meet outside of class for weekly hands-on training sessions. Only one topic per semester can be selected.

Topics course.Instrument specific topics course designed for research students (special studies, honors, SURF, etc.) requiring access to microscope equipment in the Center for Microscopy and Imaging (CMI). Each semester, three six-week courses are offered. All students meet the first two weeks to discuss their projects and the last week to present their work. During the remaining three, students learn how to operate a microscope independently (see topics). Participants are expected to meet outside of class for weekly hands-on training sessions. Only one topic per semester can be selected.

Topics course.Instrument specific topics course designed for research students (special studies, honors, SURF, etc.) requiring access to microscope equipment in the Center for Microscopy and Imaging (CMI). Each semester, three six-week courses are offered. All students meet the first two weeks to discuss their projects and the last week to present their work. During the remaining three, students learn how to operate a microscope independently (see topics). Participants are expected to meet outside of class for weekly hands-on training sessions. Only one topic per semester can be selected.

Same as BIO 317. In recent years, new methods have been developed for interfacing with biological systems at the nanoscale, enabling a range of new experimental approaches. Many of these techniques make use of repurposed or reengineered biological building blocks. As a class, we will employ the Design Thinking approach to investigate a complex biological molecular machine and co-create a detailed written experimental plan for answering previously inaccessible question about the machine’s molecular mechanisms.

Same as BCH 317. In recent years, new methods have been developed for interfacing with biological systems at the nanoscale, enabling a range of new experimental approaches. Many of these techniques make use of repurposed or reengineered biological building blocks. As a class, we will employ the Design Thinking approach to investigate a complex biological molecular machine and co-create a detailed written experimental plan for answering previously inaccessible question about the machine’s molecular mechanisms.

Topics course: An investigation of the emerging fields of synthetic biology and bio-nanotechnology drawn from semi-popular and primary research literature. In this seminar, we focus on that can be achieved by approaching biology from an engineering mindset. Specifically, what can be learned about cell biology by treating biological components (proteins and nucleic acids) and systems (signaling and metabolic networks) as interchangeable machine-like parts? Harnessing biological systems for the production of pharmaceuticals and hydrocarbon fuel sources is also considered.

This course is an opportunity for Division III students whose projects contain a significant element of creative writing-in whatever genre-to share their work with others, bring their Divisions III to a successful close, and reflect jointly on the possible meanings of 'community' for writers, whose work so often necessarily unfolds and progresses in private. Students will present work to the workshop two times, and each student will prepare a short presentation about the Div III work of another student.

This course is designed as a seminar in mass culture & media/cultural studies, and is appropriate for advanced Division II and Division III students. Topics to be addressed include historical efforts to theorize mass culture, the relationship between the mass and the popular, and questions of value, ideology, cultural production, representation, and consumption. Readings will be drawn from the work of Adorno & Horkheimer, Benjamin, Kracauer, Macdonald, Althusser, de Certeau, and Hall, as well as recent critical writings in media and cultural studies.

Learn how to program and debug Arduino micro-controllers extended with sensor and actuator circuits to create tiny bits of autonomous agency that sense and respond to the world around them. The course covers: basic principles and techniques of programming and debugging using the Arduino IDE to customize the controllers; introduction to simple electronics for both measuring sense variables such as light, temperature, weight, force, and presence and acting on the world with devices such as motors, linear position actuators, lamps, switches, vibrators, heaters, and coolers.