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HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Learn, Show, and Tell Today, with total investments of more than $1 billion, programs in science education have become an integral part of our mission and culture.   |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
Summer Institute Expands to New Sites The expanded Summer Institute will continue to use the National Academy of Sciences' Bio2010 report as a touchstone. The report concluded that biology faculty needed to learn the science behind successful teaching. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
Institute Launches Documentary Film Unit At a meeting in February that brought together scientists, educators, and entertainment industry professionals, HHMI announced the launch of a $60 million documentary film initiative that aims to bring engaging science features to television. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Cathy Shufro |
Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Erin Peterson |
I Am a Scientist Science benefits from diversity, says David Asai, senior director of HHMI's precollege and undergraduate science education programs. "Finding solutions to hard scientific problems often depends on the diversity of the problem solvers." |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012 |
Short Films Make Evolutionary Biology Memorable "Film is a powerful way to tell stories," says HHMI Vice President for Science Education Sean B. Carroll. "You can hear scientists talking in their own words and see the places where they do their own work." |
Science News
April 22, 2006 |
Finding Form A website devoted to advances in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. Watch brief movies of embryo formation in fruit flies, butterfly wing development, and other natural wonders. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
Bio-IT World
June 12, 2002
Beth Schachter |
Informatics Moves to the Head of the Class The race is on to increase the quantity and quality of bio-IT training programs as government and academia bet the need will be great. Will the job market back up that bet? |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Amber Dance |
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times for Postdocs Fresh from a Ph.D. in virology, Nancy Van Prooyen is carving her own scientific niche. She's taking on the little-known fungal pathogen, Histoplasma capsulatum, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. |
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
Aug 2011 |
Rosenfeld to Lead HHMI Documentary Initiative HHMI's $60 million documentary film initiative, announced in February, aims to bring high-quality, compelling science features to television. The initiative will extend the Institute's science education outreach to a global TV viewership. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Going Green: New Program Provides Vital Support for Plant Scientists HHMI and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced in September a new research program that will provide critical support to some of the nation's most innovative plant scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
Institute Launches New Investigator Competition These appointments will enable the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen its community of researchers and bring innovative approaches to the study of biological problems. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter Announces Plant Science Funding "Plant scientists have tremendous potential to help us understand -- and possibly find solutions to -- some of the most pressing concerns that face society." |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
Wyszynski Joins HHMI as Vice President of Human Resources In her new role, Kathy Wyszynski oversees all aspects of human resources for the Institute, including human resources strategy, recruitment, benefits and compensation. |
Bio-IT World
December 15, 2003
Zachary Zimmerman |
Learning the Language of Systems Biology Geneticist par excellence David Botstein talks about his philosophy, science, his mission for integrative science, and what he deems a success for systems biology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010 |
President's Letter Recognizes Hanna Gray's Tenure as Trustee Chair Thanks in no small measure to Hanna Gray's leadership, HHMI remains a distinctive organization, one that resists easy categorization. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
2012 Gilliam Fellows Announced Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected nine students to receive the 2012 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Ripple Effect HHMI is awarding a $22.5 million, 5-year grant to the National Math and Science Initiative to expand UTeach, an established training program aimed at preparing science and math majors to become teachers. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Kendalll Powell |
Jeffrey Kieft: Inspired to Serve In addition to running his University of Colorado lab, he engages church groups on the theory of evolution. He's driven to advocate for science. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Plant Science Gets a Boost HHMI and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation join forces to fund plant scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
New HHMI Gilliam Fellows Selected This year, Howard Hughes Medical Institute doubled the number of the Gilliam fellowships available after realizing that they had more top applicants than they could fund. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Madeline Drexler |
The Indispensables Every research lab has behind-the-scenes specialists without whom modern science could not get done. Here are the stories of five indispensable lab team members, among many acknowledged by grateful HHMI investigators. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Bergstrom & Lipsitch |
Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Benyam Kinde: A Young Scientist Reflects On How He Got This Far Benyam Kinde is in the MD/PhD program at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
New International Competition for Early Career Scientists The biomedical competition is aimed at helping up to 35 early career scientists establish independent research programs. Scientists trained in the United States who are now running a lab in any eligible country may apply. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Jim Keeley |
International Early Career Awards Provide Connections and Funding Twenty-eight scientists from 12 countries receive inaugural award. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Maternal and Paternal Genes Don't Always Have The Same Effect On Offspring The genes you inherited from your mom and those passed along from your dad don't have equal footing when it comes to how they influence your biology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Ivan Amato |
The View from Here "Every major advance in imaging technology precipitates a new round of breakthroughs in cell biology," says structural biologist Grant Jensen, an HHMI investigator at the California Institute of Technology. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
Fifty International Students Get Support from HHMI Italian graduate student Elisa Araldi is one of 50 from 19 countries who were awarded HHMI International Student Research Fellowships. |
Geotimes
September 2005 |
Geomedia Straight From the Source: Q&A with Author Sean B. Carroll... Book Reviews: The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey by Chris Beard... etc. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Taking the Long View This October, I was honored to be present at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, or K-RITH, in Durban, South Africa. This initiative brings a new dimension to HHMI's commitment to international research. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011 |
Experiment Seeks to Create Interdisciplinary Curricula The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has brought together an expert in student evaluation with faculty members from four universities with one goal in mind: to create interdisciplinary science courses easily implemented in any undergraduate classroom. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Intellectual Ferment There are exciting connections between chemistry and biology from both "sides" of the disciplinary divide. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
President's Letter: Fundamentals for Uncertain Times The challenges in the scientific community are numerous. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011 |
HHMI Offers International Student Research Fellowships New fellowship supports 48 international graduate students. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams. |
Carolyn Bertozzi: Changed Expectations Chemists trained in biology were once a rarity -- now they're becoming the norm. |
Investment Advisor
April 2008 |
Group Think The American College selected Carroll Walker as this year's recipient of the Samuel H. Weese Award... The Financial Planning Association is currently accepting nominations for its 2009 Board of Directors... |
HHMI Bulletin
Spring 2013
Nicole Kresge |
A Structural Toolbox Natalie Strynadka wants to design a better antibiotic. Her strategy: learn about the molecules bacteria use to invade cells. Her tool: structural biology. |
