Lessons of Microbiology Course Include Raising Money to Fight AIDS

In the course "Clinical Microbiology" at Merrimack College, students spend a lot of time in the laboratory, peering into Petri dishes and adjusting microscopes. That is all very important, of course: How else are students going to learn about infectious diseases if they don't see them up close?

But after teaching the class for 20 years, Marcia Walsh realized something was missing. "It's easy to talk about infectious disease from a medical perspective," says the associate professor of

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