Introduction to Volume 11, Issue 1 and Proceedings of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Workshops at Pomona College, Claremont, CA, July 28 to July 31, 2011

Proceedings of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Workshops at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, July 30 - Aug 3, 2014.

IFEL TOUR: A Description of the Introduction to FUN Electrophysiology Labs Workshop at Bowdoin College, July 27–30, and the Resultant Faculty Learning Community

The workshop "Introduction to FUN Electrophysiology Labs" was organized by Patsy Dickinson (Bowdoin College), Steve Hauptman (Bowdoin College), Bruce Johnson (Cornell University), and Carol Ann Paul (Wellesley College). It took place July 27-30 2006 at Bowdoin College. There were fifteen participants, most of whom were junior faculty at college and universities around the country. This article ...

Identifying and Using ‘Core Competencies’ to Help Design and Assess Undergraduate Neuroscience Curricula

There has been a growing emphasis on the use of core competencies to design and inform curricula. Based on our Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience workshop at Pomona we developed a set of neuroscience core competencies. Following the workshop, faculty members were asked to complete an online survey to determine which core competencies are considered most essential and the results are present...

GCAT-SEEKquence: Genome Consortium for Active Teaching of Undergraduates through Increased Faculty Access to Next-Generation Sequencing Data

To transform undergraduate biology education, faculty need to provide opportunities for students to engage in the process of science. The rise of research approaches using next-generation (NextGen) sequencing has been impressive, but incorporation of such approaches into the undergraduate curriculum remains a major challenge. In this paper, we report proceedings of a National Science Foundation...

A Life in Science

The process of “becoming” is inherently unique for each youngmind that chooses a career of scientific exploration and experimentation. Yet within each scientist’s story are themes of energizing curiosity, fulfillment emerging from discovery, and an instinctual desire for the freedom to explore and investigate. Laura L. Mays Hoopes, the Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology at Pomona College in Cla...