Organize! Research Coordination Networks for Undergraduate Biology Education
AIBS recently received the following request from the National Science Foundation to help get the word out on an exciting new program, and we're happy to assist!
NSF has created a new track in the Research Coordination Network program that is aimed at undergraduate biology education. We’d like to get news of this funding opportunity distributed as widely as possible. Would you please make sure to pass on this information to the appropriate people at AIBS so that it can be posted on your website, listserves, and in any relevant bulletins. See the announcement at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08035/nsf08035.jsp .
Dan Udovic, Program Officer, DUE/NSF, Phone: 703-292-4766, e-mail: dudovic@nsf.gov
NSF's RCN grants are innovative funding vehicles to encourage and foster interactions among scientists to create new research directions or advance a field. In this case, quoting from the announcement, it's "an opportunity to request support for networks that will catalyze positive changes in biology undergraduate education. Application of new technologies to enhance pedagogy, increased use of inquiry based learning, enhancement of curricula with ideas from the frontiers of science, and building research into curricula to motivate the next generation of scientists all may benefit from increased collaboration among those who develop and offer undergraduate biology curricula. Research Coordination Networks – Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) will provide opportunities to join biology and education researchers and practitioners in networks that enhance the exchange of ideas and innovative practices."