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Thinking ahead Recognizing that a PhD can be a springboard to many different career paths is the first step towards ensuring that science students have every opportunity to succeed.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Katharine Gammon |
Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
CRM
May 2014
Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
Bank Technology News
February 2010
Karen Epper Hoffman |
Banks Incubate The Innovation Fixation Most banks don't have Apple-esque credentials when it comes to innovation, but more are not only seeing the value of thinking out the box, but also understanding that creativity doesn't happen in isolation-hence the innovation lab. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 25, 2014
Michael Blanding |
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Class Act More business schools are offering corporate responsibility and SRI components. |
CRM
February 2012
Leonard Klie |
IVR Identifies At-Risk Students Vocantas IVR helps Avila University reach out to students in danger of transferring or dropping out. |
Entrepreneur
October 2009
Jason Daley |
The Union of Town and Gown To block brain drain and enrich economies, more universities are linking up in creative entrepreneurial initiatives. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 21, 2014
Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Robert Gutnikoff |
Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Erin Peterson |
Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Paul Muhlrad |
Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be. |
Information Today
November 5, 2015 |
McGraw-Hill Education Studies Students and Technology Students see greater potential for technology in college than is currently being used. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 25, 2007
Ferdig & Boyer |
Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back Music Instruction Goes Digital Carol Broos is on a mission. She is determined to appeal to the estimated 80 percent of students who do not enroll in traditional school music programs -- band, orchestra, and choir. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010 |
National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2011 |
Google Puts $6 Million Into Open Source Summer Google pushes forward on its Summer of Code effort, helping over a thousand students and 175 open source projects. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 4, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2006
Lisa Valentine |
A Scientific Method The Hartford Financial Services Group determined that innovation wouldn't be found through simply evaluating emerging technologies, but by applying a rigorous scientific approach to finding technologies to solve business problems. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 1, 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Bringing That CanDo Spirit An educator's determined effort to update his school's archaic data systems results in a grassroots programming project that promoted student learning. |
National Defense
January 2011
Cynthia D. Miller |
Defense Department Embraces STEM Education Outreach The Defense Deaprtment hires more scientists and engineers, and sponsors more research and development projects than any other federal employer. |
Information Today
May 14, 2015 |
Gale Helps Middle School Students With Information Literacy Gale launched Research In Context, an online, multimedia (images, audio, video, and primary sources, etc.) research tool for middle school students. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
President's Letter: Critical Thinking Though our efforts to improve the training of STEM teachers and students are modest in the big picture, we hope the work becomes an amplifying mechanism. And with new initiatives coming out of our science education group, we plan to have an even bigger influence on STEM education in this country. |
Chemistry World
July 3, 2013
Eugene Gerden |
Russia looks to attract EU students The Russian government is planning to up its quota for foreign students studying on state funded places at its universities by 50%. The new quota will be set at 15,000 overseas students. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Stabilizing Forces Recognizing the role of research professionals in today's laboratory organizations is important not only to the individuals who contribute their services but also to the research enterprise as a whole. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Lisa Chiu |
Going Viral Science Education Alliance's hands-on lab approach takes on a life of its own. |
Information Today
December 2, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
OpenCon: Students and Early-Career Researchers for Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data OpenCon, was the first full conference for students and early-career researchers that focused on the open knowledge trifecta -- open access, open education, and open data. |
Fast Company
September 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks. |
Chemistry World
July 10, 2013
Marie Cote |
Never shut down another person's ideas Vy Dong is a professor at the University of California at Irvine, US. Her group investigates better tools for organic synthesis, including new reagents, catalysts and strategies. |
CIO
January 26, 2015
Edward Hanapole |
CIO Helps Kaplan Keep Pace With Students At Kaplan, a for-profit education company, IT untethers from old approaches and focuses on keeping up with fast-changing student needs |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2009 |
Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. |
Fast Company
November 22, 2011
Anya Kamenetz |
General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few In the future of education, some General Assembly may be required. General Assembly was founded in January 2011 by four friends as a campus for technology, design, and entrepreneurship. |
Chemistry World
May 21, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
To lecture or not to lecture? A meta analysis has shown that there are better ways to teach science to college students than lectures. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
Information Today
February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2012
Laura Howes |
Home office to help student job seekers In a speech last week, the UK's home secretary announced that from April 2013, all international PhD students will be allowed to remain in the country for one year to find work or start a business after their course has finished. |
National Defense
May 2015
Alan Pellegrini |
Defense Innovation Requires Focus on STEM Education Organizations must look beyond their own walls to support people and ideas that help secure our nation and allow high-technology industries to thrive. One way to do this is through STEM programs. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
Medical Fellows Get a Chance to Try Research This past summer, 70 medical, dental, and veterinary students put their courses and rotations on hold to focus on laboratory research. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 14, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2014 |
Taking responsibility Sara Cooper talks to Neil Withers about safety in the lab and how it's up to everyone, from boardrooms to students, to create a safe environment |
T.H.E. Journal
October 7, 2009
Ruth Reynard |
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2009
Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
Jennifer Demski |
STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Laboratory safety goes digital The Dow Lab Safety Academy videos aim to provide a broad overview of the safety concerns in a modern lab, along with tips on how to integrate thinking about safety into everyday lab activities. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
The Smartest Move Colleges Ever Made Eliminating the middleman serves both schools and students. Colleges are at least making the right response to the credit crisis by making loans directly to their students. |
Chemistry World
May 5, 2009
James Mitchell Crow |
Sustainable research creeps closer With the UK government having committed to an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, a raft of new legislation will soon be driving universities to cut energy use in the lab. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
