Four Things Wrong with How We Teach Plant Science
Blog, Featured Article 1In 2011, with funding from the NSF, ASPB and the Botanical Society of America convened a workshop to work out how the Vision and Change recommendations might be put into practice in plant biology. The concern that emerged most was not a gap in research or in funding. It was that undergraduate curricula…
Avenues and Strategies for Attracting Students to a New Lab
Blog, Featured Article 1You have gone through years of training, landed a grant to start your own lab at your dream university, and now you are standing in an empty lab space full of equipment thinking, "Wow! Now I actually need to hire people to help me do science." Given it is conference season (we had an amazing Plant Biology…