Show Teaches Malaysian University teaching in iS science national of j. S diversity Lake since t volun-i-to teach in a a few f training came to the AND the six other volunteers slated Peace Corps to the acuity studied Malaysia each observed lectures at the and wrote and delivered practice lectures to each The biologists and chemists in this croup are now successfully teaching at the the only institution of higher education in Malaysia to use the national language as its sole medium of ESTABLISHED in the university serves a predominantly Malay Multi-racial is made up of three distinct ethnic the predominantly rural who are the largest in the most of them urban dwellers involved in commerce and and the the smallest of the three One of the university's goals is to help advance the Malays through training and education in the professional and economic A faculty of medicine is to be added this year to the existing faculties of arts and schools of economics and Malay language and literature BECAUSE Malaysia is short of qualified professionals to teach the has asked the Peace Corps to provide experienced instructors like to fill the gap until m there are enough Malaysian professors to take over their and live in a split-level home provided by the university near the whose research specialty is conducts much of his research at home as well as at the laboratory the university has assigned to intends to survey the varieties of turtles in Malaysia and their geographic distribution during his two years of service as a Peace Corps SINCE HE began his teaching assignment in has been teaching genetics and going out on field trips with biology students and laboratory He and three other Peace Corps volunteers also organized and taught the university's first course in environmental plans to teach a course on evolution in the new school quarter which begins this IS a member of the American Society for the Advancement of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and and the American Society of Ichthyologists and A graduate of Bountiful High School in received his bachelor's degree in environmental zoology from the University of Utah in 1969 and his master's degree in biology in He taught human anatomy as a teaching fellow at the university during the summers of 1969 and |