List of Student Webpages

Students in my seminar are required to provide course resources in the form of webpages. In the 'early days' this assignment included a 'pre-assignment' where students learned the technology of webauthoring by preparing a personal hompage. In recent semesters I have found that that assignment was not necessary as a majority of the students in the class already had personal webpages or had prepared websites for other classes.

Below are the directions for the original assignment. Directions for the later pages can be found as links from that semester's seminar homepage. The personal webpages should include links to sites on other, course related, topics.

Explanation and Guidelines for the PERSONAL HOMEPAGE

This assignment has two main goals. Through it completion you should:

• Become familiar with navigating the web
• Gain experience making a webpage

Site Content guidleines

• The site must prominently display your name.
• It is a personal webpage so it should contain information and links that are of personal interest to you. Remember that it will be posted on the web and available for general access.
• The site must contain one illustration. It can be a 'self drawn image', a personal picture you have scanned in or an image from a website or publication. IF you use a published illustration be sure to a) have permission b) give credit.
• The site must contain at least two working links to other web locations (outside of Davidson College).
• By the end of the semester the page must also contain working links to a) the seminar's homepage, b) the class page, and c) your project 's homepage.
• The site must contain the copyright and comment tag-line seen at the bottom of this page--modified so that it contains YOUR email address. (ie. copy and paste it onto your page. Select my email address and change the text and the link so that it contains your email address)

• Professional appearance
• Use black text on a light colored background (otherwise it hurts to read)
• Remember this may be the only information about you that the 'webreader' ever has. Make a good impression.

List of Student Pages

Spring 2004

'GM People': People who speak out about genetic modification-- Who are they and what are their arguments? A description of the project is found in Course Information
Jose Bove by Jim Antoon	Satish Kumar by Helen Nguyen
Lord Melchett of England by Ashley Cain	Norman Borlaug by Sarah Parker
Prince Charles of England by Dan Cheuy	Camila Montecinos by Kevin Saunders
C. S. Prakash by Will Greendyke	Mae-Wan Ho by Matt Talbert
Vandana Shiva by Leigh Anne Hoskins	Jeremy Rifkin by William Wood
Thomas Sowell by Nicole Hesson	Arpad Pusztai by Chris Wrobleski

'GM Events': Developments in the lab, the courtroom, the media and the government. A description of the project is found in Course Information
The EU and Bt corn-- Past and Present Stances by Jim Antoon	Monsanto Develops Terminator Technology by Helen Nguyen
The Development of Golden Rice by Ashley Cain	The Beginning of the Green Revolution: Borlaug's Wheat by Sarah Parker
Approval Required for Monsanto's GM Crops by Dan Cheuy	Plight of Protestors by Kevin Saunders
Egypt vs Thailand: Embargos and GMC Detection by Will Greendyke	From Arabidopsis to Super Cabbage by Matt Talbert
Bt and Butterflies by Leigh Anne Hoskins	Transgenic Pets: The Glowfish by William Wood
Debate and Policies on Labeling GM foods by Nicole Hesson	The Development of Genetically Modified Fish by Chris Wrobleski

Fall 2002

Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer by David Shelburne	The Rice Genome Sequencing Projects by Lauran Halpin
Electroporation by Paul Toran	Overview of a plant model system: Arabidopsis by Tara Maloney
Plant tissue culture by Amy Johnston	SNPs and VNTRs by La Powell
Invasive Species by Mike Chase	Gene gun mediated gene transfer by Graham Watson
RT-PCR by Peter Lowry	Expression plasmids (with emphasis Agrobacterium Ti plasmid) by Monica Siegenthaler
Southern and Northern Blots by Lane Estes	Plant breeding by Meghan Estes

Student Webprojects and Final Papers-- Final Papers are found as links from the project homepages.
Herbicide and Pesticide Resistance Graham Watson and Lane Estes	Genetic Modifications for Medicinal Purposes: David Shelburne and Paul Toran	Plant Stress Meghan Estes and Amy Johnston
Comparing traditional plant breeding to modifications via biotechnology Peter Lowry and La Powell	Herbicides: Usage, Design and Development Mike Chase and Monica Siegenthaler	'Feeding the world' Lauran Halpin and Tara Maloney