Contact Information

• Cell phone: if you do not see the "Call Me" icon above, use the number given in class. Otherwise click on the icon above and enter your name and number in the boxes that appear. When you click "Connect", Google will call your phone and, when you answer, connect you with me. Or call my office phone below.

• Email (if you are a student of mine, please use the address in the class syllabus)

• Pmail: Life Sciences Department, Palomar College, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069

• Office phone: 760-744-1150 X2527

• Office hours for spring 2013: M-Th: 11:00 am - noon; M, T: 5-5:30 pm; or by appointment

• Office: NS-307A (NS building, third floor)

• Map of campus

To Help You Prepare...

See Blackboard for practice exams.

Biology Links

• Wayne's Word of Natural History by Professor Wayne Armstrong, Palomar College.

  Career and Academic Information for Physiology Students

• Athletic training
• Dental hygiene
• Dentistry
• Forensic science
• Kinesiotherapy
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Physician assistant
• Physical therapy
• Respiratory therapy
• Palomar college career center
• More careerinformation from JobStar California: a great site packed with news about dozens of specific careers, as well as information on salaries, resume writing, "hidden jobs" and more.

   Scholarship Information

• Scholarships and financial aid at Palomar.
• The Financial Aid Information Page: a comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid. An excellent place to start looking for scholarships!
• Scholarship stuff: various financial aid resources.
• California Student Aid Commission: lots of financial aid information for California students.
• CollegeNet: 2500 colleges listed with admissions information. Includes a scholarship search and online applications for colleges in the US and abroad.
• "The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid": provides tools to locate and apply for college scholarships, internships, and loan opportunities.
• FreSch!: a free online scholarship search service with lots of useful information and additional links. Subscribe to their free weekly newsletter containing updated info on various scholarships.
• California AmeriCorps: a service program that allows people of all ages and backgrounds to earn help paying for education in exchange for a year of service.
• Scholarship scams: Information about bogus schemes that can cost you money!

    Health and Medicine

• eMedicine
• Healthcentral.com
• InteliHealth: Johns Hopkins Health Information
• Medical quackery!

  Pseudoscience and Modern Mythologies

• Fight ignorance!
• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
• Skeptics Society
• Urban legends (Snopes.com)
• Carl Sagan's "baloney detection kit"

  Some Highly Recommended Books

• How to Study : Suggestions for High School and College Students By Arthur William Kornhauser, et al
• What Smart Students Know : Maximum Grades, Optimum Learning, Minimum Time  By Adam Robinson
• Study Power : Study Skills to Improve Your Learning and Your Grades  By Wood Smethurst & William R. Luckie
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat  by Oliver Sacks.
• Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine by George C. Williams and Randolph M. Nesse.
• Phantoms in the Brain  by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee

  Dr. C's Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Physiology, 1981; University of California at Berkeley
  
• B.S. in Biology, 1973; University of California at Riverside
  
• West Valley College, Saratoga, California 1968-70

Ponder the infinite 

A woodcut from De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543.

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