2008 Woodie Awards
Math and Science Departments Get $119,000 Award
Ashley Stearns
Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: News
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The future looks brighter for both Math and Science students with the recent grant the school was awarded to enhance their curriculum and combine the two areas through a joint project.
Sacred Heart was awarded $119,000 through a very aggressive Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program of the National Science Foundation.
The project will combine an effort by the departments of Biology and Mathematics in a joint project called, "From ILAP to iLapAP- Linking Investigative Biology Laboratories to the Mathematics Curriculum."
Erika Spadafora, a Biology major, is one of the students who said she hopes this program will help prepare students by enhancing their knowledge and understanding of each topic.
"It would help students obtain more accurate results from research and experiments, preventing less error," said Spadafora, sophomore, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "With less error and more accurate results, students will be able to understand, interpret and analyze the results in a more sophisticated manner."
Enhancing and improving students' insight on their math skills and concepts and improving the quantitative reasoning abilities of Biology students are only a few of the program's objectives. The goal is to also bring a "real world" atmosphere for both Science and Math major students in the classroom with the tools the grant will be able to purchase. The goal is to also allow professors to collaborate and bring their individual disciplines together, which depend a great deal on one another.
"The grant will help teachers with more materials and resources to use during instruction and developing the basis of a better and new curriculum," said Jillian Crisci, a Math major junior student from Wallkill, N.Y. "If they use the money to invest tools for the classroom, it will benefit the students by having models for conceptual hands-on Mathematics and Science."
Professor and Chair of the Math Department Rose Marie Kinik is one of the faculty members in charge of the project.
Sacred Heart was awarded $119,000 through a very aggressive Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program of the National Science Foundation.
The project will combine an effort by the departments of Biology and Mathematics in a joint project called, "From ILAP to iLapAP- Linking Investigative Biology Laboratories to the Mathematics Curriculum."
Erika Spadafora, a Biology major, is one of the students who said she hopes this program will help prepare students by enhancing their knowledge and understanding of each topic.
"It would help students obtain more accurate results from research and experiments, preventing less error," said Spadafora, sophomore, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "With less error and more accurate results, students will be able to understand, interpret and analyze the results in a more sophisticated manner."
Enhancing and improving students' insight on their math skills and concepts and improving the quantitative reasoning abilities of Biology students are only a few of the program's objectives. The goal is to also bring a "real world" atmosphere for both Science and Math major students in the classroom with the tools the grant will be able to purchase. The goal is to also allow professors to collaborate and bring their individual disciplines together, which depend a great deal on one another.
"The grant will help teachers with more materials and resources to use during instruction and developing the basis of a better and new curriculum," said Jillian Crisci, a Math major junior student from Wallkill, N.Y. "If they use the money to invest tools for the classroom, it will benefit the students by having models for conceptual hands-on Mathematics and Science."
Professor and Chair of the Math Department Rose Marie Kinik is one of the faculty members in charge of the project.
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