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In 1972, Dr. David C. Grant took 10 Davidson students to the Marine
Biological Lab in Woods Hole, MA. The 10-week, 3-course curriculum
consisted of:
- Ecology
- guided
Independent Research, and
- a
unit known as Extended Studies, in which each student served as
an intern in a research lab of an established marine scientist
during the 10-week term.
The
program offered undergraduates an opportunity to learn science by
total immersion in a setting devoted to marine research.
The
off-campus semester, now known as Beaufort-PLUS and offered by Dr.
David Grant, is a marine program that grew out of the 1972 program.
Rising costs at Woods Hole precluded a later program in the mid-70's,
but it was reinstated in the fall of 1979 in cooperation with the
Duke Endowment.
Dr.
Grant and the late Dr. Cynthia T. Grant designed the 10-week, 3-course
curriculum. In 1989 when Davidson College adopted a semester calendar,
Dr. Grant added a 4-week fourth course, which analyzes the changes
in coastal marine fauna at 200 latitude mile increments along the
southeastern coast of the U.S. In 1995, the program added Davidson's
first Academic Intern in Field Biology to assist in all phases of
the program.
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