How a Discovery Corps Fellowship can take over your life: Great Lakes Intercontinental Instrumentation Collaboratory

CHED 1693

Alanah Fitch, afitch@luc.edu, Department of Chemistry, Loyola University Chicago, 1068 W. Sheridan, Chicago, IL 60626, Ward Mavura, mavura@africaonline.co.ke, Department of Chemistry, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, Njoro, Kenya, and George Thiruvathukal, Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, Lewis Towers Suite 416, Water Tower Campus, Chicago, IL 60611.
The Discovery Corps Fellowship genesis of this project, a collaboratory between East Africa and the United States will be briefly surveyed. The morphing of the project from a simple one year adventure into a much larger enterprise will be detailed. Current efforts to design a simple and easily used interface for low bandwidth clients remotely using instrumentation at Loyola from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will be described. A survey of instrumental needs in the teaching of analytical chemistry and for research in East Africa will be presented.
 

Bridging Research and Service: The Discovery Corps Experience
8:30 AM-11:35 AM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N229, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007