Education Report for March/April 2013

• Teaching about biotechnology? These ActionBioscience.org articles are newly updated, thanks to our NWABR partnership.

  » Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies » Genes and Civil Liberties

• Find out how changes are being implemented within and among undergraduate life science departments in this month’s Eye on Education column in BioScience.

• This month’s Education article in BioScience describes how students are Learning to Reason about Ecosystem Dynamics over Time: The Challenges of an Event-Based Causal Focus.

• Read a new report (PDF) on The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops published by the Council for Scientific Society Presidents.

• Not new, but now free! Evolution: Education and Outreach is now completely open-access and back issues are freely available.

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• Want to join a community of educators working to support and recognize change within academic departments in undergraduate life sciences education? Join the PULSE community to exchange ideas, provide feedback, and share resources.

• Do you teach about global change? Take the “Global Change” survey to help UCMP and NSCE get a better sense of how educators view global change, the importance of teaching it, and the resources available for doing so.

• Do you teach genetics? The American Society for Human Genetics is seeking proposals to investigate research questions related to genetics education in grades 7-20.

• Explore new models of instruction for the undergraduate classroom at the HHMI/National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education. Here are the regional institutes still accepting applications:

  » Midwest: Deadline - May 29, 2013 » Mountain West: Deadline - April 26, 2013 » Gulf Coast: Deadline - May 10, 2013 » West Virginia: Deadline - April 15, 2013

• Register for one of the NSF-sponsored Interactive Web-based Workshops to gain a competitive edge and learn how define project goals, expected outcomes, evaluation questions, and more.

  » Introduction to TUES (Thurs 4/25) » Proposal Strategy (Tues 4/23) » Goals and Expected Outcomes (Tues 4/16 and Thurs 4/18) » Project Evaluation (Weds 4/24) » Broader Impacts (Weds 4/17 and Tues 4/30) » Impact and Transportability (Weds 5/1)

• Involved in providing graduate student professional development? If so, become a part of the new BioTAP network.

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American Society for Microbiology’s Conference on Undergraduate Education, May 16-19 in Denver, CO.

BioQUEST’s HHMI Quantitative Summer Conference, June 10-16 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

Annual Association for Biology Laboratory Educators (ABLE) Conference, June 25-28 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, CA.

Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research 2013 National Meeting, July 11-14 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, MN.

National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference November 20-23 in Atlanta. GA.

Annual Meeting of the Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE), October 18-19 in Indianapolis, ID.

Project Kaleidoscope’s “Transforming STEM Education: Inquiry, Innovation, Inclusion, and Evidence” October 31-November 2 in San Diego, CA.

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