Development of an Earth and Space Science-Focused Education Program at Howard University

Journal of Geoscience Education, May 2006 by Misra, Prabhakar, Carruthers, George, Jenkins, Gregory S

The contents of these new courses are being developed in transportable and modular electronic format, so that they can be readily exported to other institutions, and/or be used on Internet World Wide Web pages conducive to distance learning.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of the DC Space Grant Consortium and the Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century (ESSE 21) initiative sponsored by the Universities Space Research Association. A special thank you to Roman Czujko of the American Institute of Physics for providing the statistical data on minorities in the sciences and drawing our attention to the supporting reference citations.

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