Hey Biotech Colleagues! At the ATE PI Meeting we are going to discuss topics based on what you think is important. Can't attend? We still want to hear from you. Your insights will help shape what the center grant will support in the future in the form of workshops, webinars ...
Biotechnology employers are already integrating artificial intelligence into everything from bioprocessing analytics to lab data management, and the workforce pipeline needs to catch up. That is the premise behind AI Essentials for Biotechnology, a two-year project funded through an NSF ATE InnovATEBIO 2.0 supplement (DUE #2349809) under Austin Community College ...
BCSI has just released A Day in the Life: Careers in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, a free six-video series featuring real professionals at Pfizer, MilliporeSigma, and NCTM, and produced with NIIMBL funding. The series is built for educators. Each interview is 2–4 minutes, professionally produced, and shows a real professional in a ...
The Biotech Beat Podcast, from the Alumni and Industry Engagement ATE project ( DUE 2202011), delivers fresh episodes each month. Tune into their March 9, 2026 episode where Stephanie describes her path from pre-vet studies to clinical trial work at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH). Stephanie, a Maryland ...
New technologies such as CRISPR are changing what is possible. An August 31, 2026 New York Times article titled “How Much Is That Gene-Edited Dog in the Window?” by Emily Anthes highlights research done at Kindred Companion Sciences, a biotech based in New York. One genetic change through CRISPR technology ...
Sometimes the news sounds a bit like a science fiction novel, doesn't it? Science often does, and maybe more so these days. A recent New York Times article, "This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature" described how scientists at Stanford University, and the Arc Institute, trained Evo, an ...
For decades, biotechnology moved at the speed of the human hand and eye. Scientists squinting at gels, technicians pipetting samples one at a time, researchers combing through data spreadsheets late into the night. That pace is changing fast, and artificial intelligence is the reason why. Artificial Intelligence hasn't just sped ...
Maybe you have a biotech field you want to find out more about, or maybe you're sure you read something written by a favorite scientist but you don't remember where on the site you saw it? Now finding what you need is easier than ever! Type your search term into ...
The June 17th episode features Libby Heeren, a data scientist who also works hard to bring togetherness as Head of Community at Posit. Posit makes 'Our Studio', and used to be named that too! The podcast started out with a bit of the Chaos part, I think--in a good way ...
Berries weren't always available year round. As the Jul 7, 2026 New York Times article by Julia Moskin explains, berry espionage was necessary in 1712 when Louis XIV had Chilean berries stolen so that they could be crossed with European berries and eventually yield berries in March, rather than waiting ...
“Scientific research is a strange endeavor”. Dr. Orlando de Lange has an interesting point….in his April 18 th, 2026 Modified Podcast he describes the process of laboring over a research question for years, packaging up the results, giving it to the world, and then waiting to see if someone can ...
Of course we want our pets to live long, healthy, and happy lives--and a May 9th, 2026 article in the New York Times (NYT) by Amanda Hess details the efforts underway to make that, and much more, reality! First up in the article is Loyal, a company that is developing ...
The headline in the May 12, 2026 New York Times article, written by Gina Kolata and Rebecca Robbins, tells it all: How an 'Impossible' Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough. Incredibly important discoveries can come from ideas that seem impossible at the start. If only 'sure things' were pursued ...
There are countless questions when you start, run, and grow a college biotechnology education program. Where do you begin? What should you teach? How do you connect with potential employers? How do you keep in touch with your alumni? Where do you find funding? The biotechnology program leaders and other ...
InnovATEBIO, the NSF funded National Biotechnology Education Center, located at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, JOINED NATIONAL CONVENING ON AMERICA’S BIOTECH MOMENT Austin, Texas -- On March 25, InnovATEBIO representatives joined the Biotech Across America State Symposium in Washington, D.C. to discuss the strategic importance of strong state and ...
In Memoriam: Dr. Elaine Johnson (1938–2026) The InnovATEBIO community mourns the passing of Dr. Elaine Johnson, Bio-Link’s founder and Executive Director from 1998 - 2018. Since Bio-Link’s inception, Elaine served as the heart of the National Center, based at the City College of San Francisco, dedicated to the mission of ...
The Journal of Advanced Technological Education (J ATE) covers many different topics, but they all lead back to the journal's mission--to support technological education through the publication of high-quality, peer-reviewed research. And this mission has never been more important than now, with the education landscape buffeted by changes in funding ...
The Biotech Beat Podcast, from the Alumni and Industry Engagement ATE project ( DUE 2202011), delivers fresh episodes each month. Listen to their December 12, 2025 episode where we hear how Jennifer's willingness to try opportunities opened up new avenues in her life. Jennifer works at Novo Nordisk in Clayton ...
For nearly 30 years, the biotechnology community has invested enormous effort in defining the skills technicians need to succeed. The result is a rich but unwieldy body of work—hundreds of pages of skill standards, largely locked in PDFs that are difficult to search, compare, or reuse. What does AI see in these data?
The American Association of Community Colleges, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, is inviting community college students to participate in the 2026 Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC). The CCIC is a national competition where teams of community college students work with a faculty or administrator mentor to use science ...
