DNA Testing of Students Help Highlight Diversity
Students from Oakton Community College in Illinois have none of the reservations others have voiced thus far about National Geographic’s The Genographic Project. Oakton’s Board of Student Affairs have encouraged students to participate and share the results of their DNA analysis in the hope of showcasing the multicultural community at the school; 10,000 students speak more than 50 different languages. The tests were subsidized by the school and students paid only $10 of the $99 cost of the kits.
Oakton students will share their results in March during the school’s annual Cultures Week with a series of student and faculty panel discussions, seminars and essays.
Programs will draw on experts in the biological sciences, literature, sociology, cultural geography and related fields.
Among the program highlights will be a map showing the migratory routes taken by ancestors of the Oakton participants.
“It’s the idea of the journeys people make,” [sociology professor Gwen] Nyden said. “We have a lot in common. We got here taking many different journeys.”
I love the positive attitude of everyone involved and wish I could attend Oakton’s Cultures Week.
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1 opinion for DNA Testing of Students Help Highlight Diversity
rickey bobbitt
Dec 4, 2007 at 3:52 am
my name is rickey bobbitt and i am interested in the dna testing i always wondered about my african ancesters i want to know my relationship better with the human family i believe there is one family and thats the human one,please send me the address of dna so i can take the test and i will send you the hundred dollars for the kit,it is about time we wipe away fear of hate say to each other my brother or my sister lets call on one world union .
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