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Green Microbiology™ Workshop
Earn 30 CPDUs and two Lane credits.
Updated revised announcement of 10-31-2007
Workshop start date January 12, 2008
Why Green Microbiology™ Workshop is important for you
and your students ?
Microbiology is one of those essential subjects with broader application to Science and to our daily lives than any other Science subject. Eliminating or reducing this subject to a bare minimum as has been happening since mid fifties or making it into a specialty subject has made teaching Science including Health Science, Environmental Science, Earth Science and Space Science rather difficult.
In order to understand the above statement fully, we need to go back to the period prior to 1880 and then to the period soon thereafter. That was the year when Microbiology became an established discipline.
Prior to that date we were groping for answers about health and disease and what germs were all about. After 1880 we not only had the answers, we also had the solutions. Within a short span of twenty or so years, we were able to establish the germ theory of disease, conquer tuberculosis and diphtheria, learned to use and produce antitoxin needed for curing diphtheria, learned to produce vaccines and made an affective one for Anthrax, learned about viruses and made a vaccine for rabies. The list goes on and on. The fact is that once the missing knowledge became available the flood gates of discoveries got opened and in a short span of about twenty or so years we learned practically everything we know now about health and disease and about many other areas where microbiology has its application and influence.
Now imagine that as time went by we started to take Microbiology for granted and slowly began to phase it out because other more exciting areas such as the discovery of DNA structure and its vast yet untapped mysteries came along which peeked our interest. Now imagine that this started to happen around mid fifties i.e., about seventy years or three generations ago.
Now imagine that when you started your education, only bare minimums of Microbiology were being taught, often just as a lecture course with little or no laboratory.
As a consequence, you will be missing a whole lot of facts about Microbiology including some of the key concepts, skills and procedures of this subject because you were never taught those.
Now imagine how much of what you did not learn, you would be teaching to your students? Hardly anything! Your only recourse would be to skip and by pass what you do not know. Your students will thus be even less prepared than you. This is how the knowledge gap widens from generation to generation and we become less and less prepared to cope with life.
Doesn’t this describe what our society is going through now? Looks like as if we are back to the pre 1880 period! Our knowledge base has not only shrunk, we have also lost its cohesiveness. This is so serious a problem that I have coined a slogan: “Add knowledge to the list of endangered species”.
Now it should be clear to you why Microbiology has to be revived and doing it the Green Microbiology™ way is the best way to do so because in Green Microbiology we teach most of the basic and applied concepts of Microbiology using killed and morphologically stabilized organisms and where live organisms are needed, we limit their use to Bio-Safety Level One organisms. This sort of takes care of the fear factor associated with germs, unfounded as it may be, making everyone a winner all around...
The overall purpose of this workshop thus is to revive and to keep alive on a perpetual basis all of the essential concepts and skills of Microbiology so we and our future generations continue benefiting from this essential and almost intimate area of human knowledge and awareness.
This workshop thus is your opportunity to broaden your background and to fill in the gap which occurred due to no fault of your own but because of the circumstances leading universities and colleges not to teach microbiology as extensively as they once used to do.
Sign up for the Green Microbiology™ Workshop and earn 30 CPDUs and two Lane Credits. Fee for the workshop is $200.00.
Start date of the workshop is Saturday, January 12, 2008.
Schedule is given below:
Workshop format and schedule: The workshop consists of two portions. One is the lab portion and the other is the mentored E-learning portion.
The lab portion of the workshop will meet on three consecutive Saturdays starting with January 12, 2008. Classes will run from 10.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M. on each of the three Saturdays.
The material for the mentored E-learning portion of the workshop will be available on the website www.iibbt.com starting January 8, 2008, and will remain available until February 15, 2008 when the participants will complete the E-learning portion and submit the required on line report.
Certificates for CPDUs and the Lane Credits will then be issued.
The workshop carries 30 CPDUs and 2 Lane credits. Fee for the workshop is $200.00
Workshop location: Center for General and Applied Education,
729 South Western Avenue,
Chicago Illinois USA 60612;
Phone: 312-243-7716; Fax: 312-243-2041
E-mail: or cengenaped@iibbt.com
To register go to: http://www.iibbt.com/green_regform.htm
NOTE: Being a hands-on lab based workshop, space is limited. Teachers who wish to avail of his opportunity are urged to apply early to insure their space.
Should you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Center at: 312-243-7716 or E-mail at iibbt@iibbt.com Please use Green Microbiology on the subject line.
Thanking you, I am
Yours sincerely,
Riaz-ul Haque, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor (Emeritus)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Founder, Center for General and Applied Education
Phone: 312-243-7716; Fax: 312-243-2041; E-mail: rhaque@uic.edu
Knowledge is not power. It is the source of inner peace and wisdom which comes with knowing the whole story, not just bits and pieces of it The latter in fact are the seeds of confusion.
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