WUSTL faculty member part of national initiative to change undergraduate education in biology
On September 7 the Partnership for Undergraduate Life
Sciences Education (PULSE) announced that Kathryn Miller, PhD, professor
and chair of biology at Washington University in St. Louis has been
selected as one of 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows. Over the
next year the Vision and Change Leadership Fellows will consider and
then recommend models for improving undergraduate life-sciences
education.
Teaching graduate and postdoctoral students to be successful teachers
Washington University in St. Louis has joined a
national experiment to develop a new generation of college science and
engineering faculty, one equipped to excel in the classroom as well as
the lab. Founded in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and
Learning (CIRTL), the mission of the CIRTL network of 25 research universities is to prepare science graduate students
to be as bold and creative in the classroom as they are in their
programs of research.