ABOU-ALFA | Cornell’s Most Important Overlooked Class: Labs

When it comes to scientific education, especially at a university as prestigious as Cornell, the efficacy of lab-based learning is of central concern and importance. Lack of student engagement or interest in many introductory courses is a calamitous misstep, as proper science is not taught, while students get jaded with the material as they learn it. As long as labs continue to get sidelined, they hurt students and their ability to uncover the scientific relevance of the phenomena observed in class.