The College Biology Professors’ Fellowship is designed to invigorate teaching in introductory biology classes at the undergraduate level. The course shows instructors how to use examples from tropical plants in discussing issues of form and function, evolution, and conservation. Fellows will develop teaching modules to be shared and implemented in the introductory biology classroom. The course is currently held at NTBG’s Florida garden, The Kampong, in May, June, or July of each year.

This course is for all physicians and health care professionals. The purpose of the course is to give important knowledge to the participants for the care of their patients, many of whom currently use herbal remedies derived from plants. Using The Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden and its extraordinary living collections, the course will cover basics in botany, plant identification, medical botany, ethnobotanical approaches to new drug discovery, plant origins of pharmaceutical products, and case studies of common herbs.