Faculty interested in attending national workshops or meetings to enhance undergraduate teaching efforts are invited to apply for travel awards. For additional information, contact Barbara Wakimoto at wakimoto@u.washington.edu.
The UW-HHMI Programs sponsors this seminar series as part of our annual Future Faculty Fellows Workshop, or in collaboration with the Department of Biology Seminar Committee. The series features invited speakers who are leaders of innovative science education or training programs. Seminars are open to the campus community. Opportunities are provided for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students (and on special occasions undergraduates and K-12 teachers) to meet with our invited speaker. Speakers have included:
Dr. Kimberly Tanner, Assistant Professor, Biology Department, San Francisco State University
"Insights from a Biology Education Researcher in a Biology Department: Research on Making Undergraduate Biology Accessible for All Students"
Dr. Scott Freeman, Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Washington
"Prescribed Active Learning Increases Performance in Introductory Biology"
Dr. Peter Grant and Dr. Rosemary Grant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
"The Evolution of Darwin's Finches"
Dr. A. Malcolm Campbell, Professor, Department of Biology, Davidson College
"Teaching at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution as a Career Option"
Dr. A. Malcolm Campbell, Professor, Department of Biology, Davidson College
"Involving Undergraduates in Genomics"
Dr. Maggie Werner-Washburne, Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
"Mentoring and Celebrating Diversity in the Sciences"
Dr. Bruce Alberts, Professor of Biochemistry, University of San Francisco Medical School
"A Biochemist Goes to Washington"
Dr. Isiah Warner, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Boyd Professor in Chemistry, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Increasing Diversity through a Mentoring Ladder"
Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education
"Eugenie's (Approximately) Ten Top Ways to Teach Evolution Better"
Public Lecture: "What's All the Fuss About Intelligent Design?"
Dr. Robin Wright, Associate Dean, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
"Active Teaching: Applying the biology of learning in our classes"
Dr. Jo Handelsman, HHMI Professor, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin
"Training the Revolutionaries: A new generation of faculty in biology education"
Featuring recent science education research articles by UW faculty:
Below are references and websites on career development and teaching.
Scientific Teaching, Handelsman et al., Science. 2004 April 23; 304(5670):521-2.
More Women In Science, Handelsman et al., Science. 2005 August 19; 309(5738):1190-1.