Designing courses to include High Impact Practices like authentic research experiences and cross-disciplinary thinking have been successfully deepening students’ engagement with those courses, over a wide variety of disciplines, for a number of years now.1–3 This lecture will describe the design, implementation, and assessment of a team-taught, cross-disciplinary, research-based lab course built around the proven success of these deeply engaging practices. This new Biochemistry/Inorganic chemistry lab course allowed students to engage in authentic research that drew upon both cutting-edge molecular sensing techniques4 as well as long-standing, thoroughly understood cancer treatments.5–7 Students designed and tested their own analogs to an industry standard (cisplatin) and, using the data they collected, were able to draw substantive conclusions about the relative success of their attempts. This lecture will also include a discussion of any limitations or difficulties encountered while using this approach as well as reinforce the numerous benefits of designing courses this way.

Building an undergraduate laboratory course on cross-disciplinary research practices

2019 Fall National Meeting

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