A death from Legionnaires’ disease on the NCCU campus promted a professor to develop a service learning component for her Environmental Problems course. The service component was designed to study and disseminate knowledge about the disease. Students surveyed students and Durham residents about the disease and offered lectures about the disease and its prevention.
Contact: Dr. Amal Abu-Shakra, Assistant Professor, at 919.569.6408 or Abushak {at} wpo.nccu(.)edu
This information originally appeared in “”Science and Society: Redefining the Relationship”" by Stephen Miller. Published by Campus Compact, 1996.
