Student-Authored Scientist Spotlights: Investigating the Impacts of Engaging Undergraduates as Developers of Inclusive Curriculum through a Service-Learning Course.

Scientist Spotlights-curricular materials that employ the personal and professional stories of scientists from diverse backgrounds-have previously been shown to positively influence undergraduate students' relatability to and perceptions of scientists. We hypothesized that engaging students in authoring Scientist Spotlights might produce curricular materials of similar impact, as well as provide a mechanism for student involvement as partners in science education reform. To test this idea and investigate the impact of student-authored Scientist Spotlights, we developed a service-learning course in which teams of biology students partnered with an instructor to develop and implement Scientist Spotlights in a biology course.

Collectively Improving Our Teaching: Attempting Biology Department-wide Professional Development in Scientific Teaching.

Many efforts to improve science teaching in higher education focus on a few faculty members at an institution at a time, with limited published evidence on attempts to engage faculty across entire departments. We created a long-term, department-wide collaborative professional development program, Biology Faculty Explorations in Scientific Teaching (Biology FEST). Across 3 years of Biology FEST, 89% of the department's faculty completed a weeklong scientific teaching institute, and 83% of eligible instructors participated in additional semester-long follow-up programs.

The price of whole-genome sequencing may be decreasing, but who will be sequenced?

Aim: Since whole-genome sequencing (WGS) information can have positive and negative personal utility for individuals, we examined predictors of willingness to pay (WTP) for WGS.

Patients & Methods: We surveyed two independent populations: adult patients (n = 203) and college seniors (n = 980). Ordinal logistic regression models were used to characterize the relationship between predictors and WTP.

Digital drug discovery.

A report of the Cambridge Healthtech Institute conference 'Beyond Genome', San Franciso, USA, 13-16 June 2005.

RNAi for research and therapy.

A report on the RNAi symposium at the Cambridge Healthtech Institute 'Beyond Genome' Conference, San Francisco, USA, 21-24 June 2004.

The epigenetics of the cell.

A report on the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2002.

Cancer: the chromatin connection.

The American Association for Cancer Research's 93rd Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, California, USA, from 6 to 10 April 2002.