{"id":10206,"date":"2007-04-10T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T22:13:48","slug":"lee-abrahamsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/04\/10\/lee-abrahamsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologist Lee Abrahamsen honored for community work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/04\/72abrahamsen2804.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/04\/72abrahamsen2804.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Lee Abrahamsen\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, students in Lee Abrahamsen&#8217;s 300-level virology course undertook a project for a hepatitis-C support group at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the group craved information about everyday impacts the disease would have \u2014 &#8220;things like, &#8216;Can I share my towels with my family without infecting them?&#8217; &#8221; Abrahamsen explains. &#8220;The students developed this nice little booklet for them. It was a really neat project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the kind of community orientation that won Abrahamsen, associate professor of biology, a prestigious award from the Maine Campus Compact. In April 2007, Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium&#8217;s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward).<\/p>\n<p>Abrahamsen&#8217;s activities in this realm, coupled with her keen interest in pedagogy in the sciences, go back at least a decade. Students in her 100-level course &#8220;Learning and Teaching Biology&#8221; developed and helped teach curricular units in nearby schools. In 2004, she collaborated with a high school biology teacher to revamp a biotechnology course in that teacher&#8217;s school. Last year, Abrahamsen&#8217;s bacteriology students worked with a local horse farm to find an effective antibiotic for an outbreak of hoof disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My role is to be a facilitator and resource,&#8221; says Abrahamsen, who encourages upper-level students to propose a service-learning project in place of a non-final exam. &#8220;Students really own it. They really get into this far more than they would if I assigned a project and said, OK, here\u2019s what you\u2019re going to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, students in Lee Abrahamsen&#8217;s 300-level virology course undertook a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11011,30,14,220],"tags":[1690,5213,5471,11035,7857],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-civic-engagement","category-faculty-staff","category-service","tag-biology","tag-lee-abrahamsen","tag-maine-campus-compact","tag-profiles","tag-service-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89691,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/89691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}