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Increasing Undergraduate Research Capacity by Creating a CURE-to-Independent Research Pipeline: Benefits of Faculty and Student Professional Development
Read MoreCaption: MD HIRES students and faculty practicing their “elevator pitches” about their research. View full size here.Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs) …
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Bringing the Field into the Classroom: Using Story Maps as an Inclusive Component of Virtual Field Experiences for Beginning Students
Learn MoreThrough story-mapping, students can address open-ended questions, critically evaluate existing information, and identify gaps in the current knowledge base.
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How Food Can Be a Cultural Bridge to Enhance Student’s STEM Identity and Learning Outcomes
Learn MorePerhaps food is not peripheral to creating inclusive learning environments, but can be central to its formation.
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Who Am I When the Little Things Add Up?
Learn MoreMy multiple identities impact how I show up in this world. They also guide the experiential framework of my approach to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion…
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Dear STEM, It’s Time for Some Identity Work
Learn MoreWhat identities are being built? What identities are (and/or ought) to be dismantled? What structures, traditions, philosophies, and/or practices necessitate d…
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Filling the Sieve and Wondering Why We’re Still Thirsty: A Call to Humanize the STEM Workplace for Educators and Students
Learn MoreMany consider the landscape of undergraduate STEM to be characterized by high rates of work stress and inequity across identities of race, ethnicity, . . .
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Designing for Difference: Conceptualizing and Planning for Variations in Learners’ Needs, Abilities, and Interests
Learn MoreLet’s leverage this moment of disruption to correct the longstanding failure of academia to recognize and plan for the inherent variability in people’s needs, …
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How Disruption Allows Us to Reimagine Convergent STEM Ecosystems
Learn MoreLearn how placing experiences and growth, rather than content delivery, at the center of activity can help you create an educational ecosystem that supports di…
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How Advocating for Accessibility in the Field Builds a Culture of STEM Inclusion
Learn MoreActive learning in field-focused science disciplines is widely recognized as highly transformative practice in the undergraduate curriculum. Giving students ea…
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How Engagement Enables Broadening STEM Participation
Learn MoreWe must embed STEM firmly in the cultural DNA of communities to truly realize the American Dream. I am an African American male . . .
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How Kindness is Part of an Excellent STEM Education
Learn MoreIn 2017 I set my fingers to the keyboard and, in collaboration with my colleagues, wrote a review article titled “The Influence of Affirming Kindness and Commu…
