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The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded more than $600,000 to offer summer research experiences for undergraduates from backgrounds underrepresented in science and whose own colleges and universities offer limited chances to work on original research.
January 7, 2019 Tags: Amgen Foundation, Joel Schildbach, STEM, underrepresented minorities
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Fundraising, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins biologist has been selected by the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences (PULSE) as one its new Vision and Change Leadership Fellows, a group charged with spending a year identifying and recommending ways to improve undergraduate life sciences education. Joel Schildbach, a biology professor and director of undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is one of 40 faculty members selected from 250 applicants from 24 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands by PULSE, a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health.
September 19, 2012 Tags: Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joel Schildbach, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences, PULSE, science education, The Johns Hopkins University, undergraduate science education
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Two dozen Johns Hopkins freshmen will get their hands dirty next fall, scratching in the soil of the Homewood campus in search of undiscovered organisms as part of an innovative one-year course offered through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Alliance. Johns Hopkins recently became one of only 12 colleges and universities nationwide in the newest cohort selected by the Chevy Chase, Md.-based HHMI to offer this National Genomics Research Initiative course, which lasts one academic year and gives students the opportunity to perform hands on research that includes extracting phages-viruses that infect bacteria-from soil samples and using sop
February 7, 2011 Tags: bioinformatics, Biology Department, DNA, Emily Fisher, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joel Schildbach, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National GenBank, National Genomics Research Initiative course, phages, Science Education Alliance, SEA program
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences
