MESSAGE CONTENTS

1. Application deadline for ASM Fellowships - FEBRUARY 1

2. Travel award and abstract deadline for 10th Undergraduate Education

Conference - MARCH 14.

3. Submission deadline for MicrobeLibrary - MARCH 1

1. APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR ASM FELLOWSHIPS

ASM UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS. Summer research fellowship for a faculty-student team. Stipend, housing and supplies available for student applicant. Requires joint application with student and sponsoring faculty member. Faculty sponsor must be an ASM member. Information and applications available on-line. Application deadline February 1, 2003. <http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/edu23a.htm>

ASM MINORITY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS. Summer research fellowship for a student from an underrepresented minority group to conduct research in ASM member laboratory. Stpiend, housing, travel and supplies available to student applicant. Students are placed at ASM host sites. Information and applications available on-line. Application deadline February 1, 2003. <http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/edu23b.htm>

2. 10TH UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION CONFERENCE. Plan to join 250 faculty in their discussions about teaching. Speakers include: Biocomplexity's Spiral: Plotting the Course for Microbiology in the Next Decade - Rita Colwell Beyond the Human Genome Project - Eric S. Green Searching for Life on and off Earth: Strategies for Life Detection - Kenneth Nealson Learning from Experience through a Scholarship of Teaching - Lee Shulman

Apply now for a travel grant (early career faculty and graduate students

eligible) or faculty enhancement fellowship (non-ASM members). Discounted registration, travel grants and fellowship, and abstract submission

deadline: March 14, 2003. Visit: <http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/edu4c2003.htm>

3. MICROBE LIBRARY. Do you have:

Stunning photographs of microorganism(s)?

Time-lapse video photography of microbial growth?

Favorite classroom activity?

A laboratory that engages students in their own learning?

If so, consider submitting your favorite item to the website, MicrobeLibrary - a database of more than 500 resources for microbiology education. All submissions received before March 1 will be reviewed in the upcoming cycle and posted for the General Meeting. Visit www.MicrobeLibrary.org <http://www.MicrobeLibrary.org>

Neil Baker

Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Education

ASM Education Board

and

Professor, Dept. of Microbiology

The Ohio State University, Columbus

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