Resources
Selected resources related to innovation in science education, development of new scientists, and support of diversity, inclusion, and equity in the scientific community.
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A Compendium of Major Accomplishments
Major accomplishments and lessons learned from the 2012 grants to primarily undergraduate institutions.
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A New Strategy to Build Capacity for Creativity
Achieving science excellence depends on our ability to engage a diverse community of scientists that discovers creative solutions to difficult problems.
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CBE-LSE
CBE-LSE publishes peer-reviewed articles on life science education at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate levels.
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Diversity and Inclusion
HHMI Inclusive Learning Group is guided by the principle that diversity and inclusion are essential components of scientific excellence and total greatness.
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Engage to Excel
Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) (February 2012)
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Entering Mentoring
A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists: Materials dedicated to improving the mentoring skills of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who may become science faculty.
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Excellence: A Renewed Call for Change in Undergraduate Science Education
AAC&U Inclusive Excellence Commission Publication on reconceiving excellence in undergraduate science education.
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Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads
Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, 2011
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Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards; Board on Science Education; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council, 2012
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Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum
2015 Report of a National Academies of Science Convocation (2015)
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Making the Right Moves
Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Second Edition
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Model Programs: Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CRE or CURE)
Initially funded by HHMI, several large-scale CREs have become model programs.
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NEXUS: National Experiment in Undergraduate Science Education
A national collaboration to develop and implement curricula that responds to the SFFP Report.
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PULSE
Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education: A national network of science education leaders, helping to transform college-level science teaching and student learning.
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Research on Replicating the Meyerhoff Scholars Program
Replicating Meyerhoff for inclusive excellence in STEM
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SEA-PHAGES website
The official website of the HHMI Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science program.
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SFFP Report
The Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians Report outlines a competency-based education framework for improvement of undergraduate and medical education (2009)
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Tools for Program Evaluation
Surveys to evaluate aspects of the undergraduate research experience.
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Training Scientists
Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves: Resources for Trainers of Early-Career Scientists
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Vision and Change
Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action. Final report of a National Conference organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (July 2011)
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Writing Great Letters
Writing a Letter of Recommendation, Addendum to Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty. Guidance for writing letters of recommendation pertaining to scholarly work.