Integration of Teaching and Research:

Wesleyan University emphasizes both teaching and research. The cross fertilization between the two results in a curriculum enriched by our scholarship. In the life sciences, the integration of teaching and research is particularly important in our laboratory courses. We have established, with Hughes support, a series of upper-level laboratory courses with substantial project-oriented components. Projects from our research programs are imported into these courses, providing students with a research experience to complement their lecture course work. This provides an alternative research experience to the more intensive independent study option in which students join research labs during term time and summers - see Hughes summer research program.

Upper-level laboratories in the life sciences include:

The Wesleyan Hughes program provides support for these laboratories.