Global Health Technologies Curriculum

• Undergraduate Minor: Non-Science
  
  
• Undergraduate Minor: Science & Engineering
  
  
• Middle and High School Students
  

Professional Development

• Middle and High School Educators
  
  
• Post-doctoral Fellowships
  
  
• Multi-Disciplinary Teaching Teams

Professional Development
Middle & High School Educators

BTB Summer Workshops

Beyond Traditional Borders at Rice University is offering a unique and stimulating opportunity to prepare Houston-area middle and high school teachers to offer an exciting new elective course in Bioengineering and World Health. Over a four-week period teachers will experience how bioengineering is making a difference in our health today, where the future of bioengineering lies, and will participate in hands-on activities to prepare them to teach a course titled Bioengineering and World Health.

» Summer 2009 Informational Flyer PDF «

The professional development experience consists of:

• Guest lecture series with clinical and bioengineering laboratory visits. Teachers will attend lectures given by top medical experts in the fields of Hematology, Immunology, Cancer, Pathology, and Cardiology, coupled with clinical laboratory tours throughout the Texas Medical Center – including MD Anderson Cancer Center, St. Luke’s Texas Heart Institute, and Baylor College of Medicine. Teachers will also see bioengineering research in action at the Bioengineering labs at Rice University.

          

• Assessing course-specific teaching materials. Teachers will participate in hands-on exercises to learn strategies to effectively teach Bioengineering and World Health.

          

• Carrying-out an independent project. Students in Bioengineering and World Health complete an independent project in which they design a new health technology for the developing world to diagnose or treat a disease of their choice. Teachers will work to propose their own new technology prototype.

          

To see what the workshop is all about
and hear from previous participants
click the link below!

Video Testimonial

To apply, please print out an application and
submit by March 27th, 2009 via either:

Mail:  Beyond Traditional Borders
          Rice University
          6100 S. Main St. - MS142
          Houston, TX 77005-1892

 

Fax:   713-348-5877 (Attn: Yvette Mirabal)

 

Email: beyondtraditionalborders@rice.edu

 To make additional inquiries, please contact:

Yvette Mirabal                                              Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Phone:713-348-4549                                    Phone:713-348-5869    
Fax: 713-348-5877                                       Fax: 713-348-5877
E-mail: ymirabal@rice.edu                             E-mail: rkortum@rice.edu