"We needed the additional assistance of the TWAs to handle many of the nitty-gritty writing questions that come up when students are first confronted with the task of journal-style writing," says Joseph Pelliccia, a biology professor at Bates and program director in the division of undergraduate education at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. Pelliccia began the P.I. program with lead lab instructor Greg Anderson of Bates in 1991.
 FOCUS ON WOMEN: Physicist Lynne Orr’s program trains female undergraduates as T.A.’s for physics courses at Rochester. |
"The idea is to recruit undergraduate women from the sciences who have already taken physics courses and performed well and place one in each introductory lab along with the regular T.A.," Orr explains. "Since every science and engineering major at Rochester is required to take physics, that means that they all have at least one female physics instructor, which is at least one ...
