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Teaching Statement Want to know what Bob Goldberg thinks and feels about teaching undergraduate and graduate students? Want to know about Bob Goldberg's unique teaching techniques that he uses in the classroom to promote student to student interactions as well as student to teacher interactions? |
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Current & Former Undergraduate Students Undergraduate students that are passing through or have passed through the Goldberg Lab. |
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NSF-Sponsored Course NSF-Sponsored Course |
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Honors Collegium 25: The Human Genome: Prospects for a Super Race? Inaugural Gold Shield Faculty Prize Course Winter 2000: Honors Collegium 98: Perspectives Post 9/11: Genetic Engineering Bioweapons -- Reality or Hype? |
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Life Sciences 3 Honors: Introduction to Molecular Biology (Honors) |
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Awards presented to Bob Goldberg for excellence in teaching at UCLA. 2002 Howard Hughes Medical Insitutute Million-Dollar Professors Professor Bob Goldberg was amoung the twenty scientists at research
universities selected to participate in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professors Program. Each professor selected is a leading researcher
who will receive $1 million over the next four years to bring the creativity
they have shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom. The Gold Shield Faculty Prize, An Award for Academic Excellence was established in 1986 on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the organization. It is presented biennially to a UCLA faculty member in recognition of extraordinary achievements in research or creative activity, outstanding teaching, and university service. To see more Awards, Click here. |
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(1999) UCLA Magazine article by Dan Gordon on Bob Goldberg's novel approach to teaching: Goldberg's Variations "In the lab, Bob Goldberg's research in genetic engineering may lead to new generations of superplants. But it is in the classroom where his influence perhaps is greatest, as he sows the seeds that will blossom into the newest crop of young scientists. Read more...
Bob Goldberg's editorial in 1993 in the Plant Cell journal on undergraduate teaching and the shortage of students pursuing science as a career. To Teach or Not. Plant Cell 5, 600-601 (1993) There is a crisis in American science that, from my vantage point as a professor at a large research university, appears to be deepening -- the shortage of young people who are choosing science as a career and going on to graduate school to pursue Ph.D. degrees..... Read more |
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In every class, students perform plays depicting the relationship between science and society. Here are the plays and actual movie clips from some of the plays. On the morning of January 28, 2000, the oil tanker Gasco Goldberg ran aground just off the coast of Pismo Beach, California. Within hours, BACTGEN, a "leading" biotechnology company specializing in developing genetically superior bacteria came forward to offer one of its genetically modified bacteria to help clean up the spill...Read more from Biohazard Check out clips video-taped from the class play "Science takes the witness stands": |
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The entire class as a group is required to write, produce, and perform in a videotaped movie concerning concepts discussed each quarter. The purpose of this project is to encourage class interaction, create a useful learning device, and have some fun. Furthermore, each lecture is video-taped so that students can review lectures to pick up points they might have missed in class. See some clips video-taped from lectures. |
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At the beginning of each class, pictures are taken of every students in the class. By the end of the 2nd day of class, Bob Goldberg will have known every student's name as well as recognizing every face. This promotes better interaction between Bob Goldberg and his students. Click hereto see pictures of the HC70A Winter 2000 Students. |
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To promote more personal interactions between Bob Goldberg and his students outside the classroom, group dinner is arranged whereby once a week a group of his students have dinner with him and have normal conversation outside the classroom. Click hereto see pictures from the dinners and class party. |
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