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Engage to Excel

March 16, 2012

TODAY!!

Seminar: Professor Jo Handelsman
Title: Engage to Excel: A National Perspective on Science Education
Date & Time: Friday,   March 16, 2012 @ 2:00 pm       
Location: Whitehead Institute Auditorium

Refreshments provided

Professor Jo Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. Professor Handelsman research laboratory focuses on microbial communities within the caterpillar gut and their roles in infectious disease. As an HHMI Professor, Professor Handelsman education research focuses on applying the scientific methods utilized in the research laboratory to the classroom. She developed a “toolkit”, based on evidence-based studies, to improve undergraduate science teaching by incorporating active learning, mentoring, diversity and self-correction into the classroom. Professor Handelsman is co-Director of the National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology, which aids other faculty and teachers in their quest to develop their teaching methods. Professor Handelsman co-founded the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to focus on increasing the participation of women and minorities in science. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring by President Barack Obama and co-chairs a presidential advisory board to propose improvements to STEM education in postsecondary education. For more information, click here.

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