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In 1994 HHMI awarded Harvard Medical School $175,000 for the Neuroscience Initiative to improve scientific literacy of high school students and to encourage student pursuit of biomedical careers. The program adapts the Harvard Medical School case-based neuroscience curriculum for use in the secondary school classroom, augments the training and development of middle and high school science teachers, and provides research opportunities to high school students. The Teacher Institute, the professional development program, a component of the Neuroscience Initiative, is available to Boston and Cambridge middle and high school science teachers. It includes an intensive summer workshop for teachers and ongoing activities throughout the academic year. The goals of the institute are to address basic neuroscience content as well as clinical applications, provide practical experience in the problem-based case-study method, bring new hands-on curricular materials to high school teachers, and expose students, particularly minority students, to biomedical career options.
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