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Did you know that the National Science Foundation has a program that offers funding for Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ( S-STEM )?

The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable low-income, talented domestic undergraduate and graduate students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM areas of strategic national need. Ultimately, the S-STEM program wants to increase the number of low-income students who graduate and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge.
The National Science Foundation has a narrated webinar on the new S-STEM... Read more

Could your biotech program use $16,000 worth of equipment for teaching bioprocessing? Read more

Our new NSF ATE grant project is involved in improving work-based learning (WBL) in biotech, and our team from City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), are collaborating with InnovATEBIO to compile information about the kinds of WBL opportunities at biotechnology training programs around the nation.

In October 2021, we reached out to over 109 community college biotechnology programs via email and through the Virtual 2021 ATE PI Conference with this survey to gather data about work-based learning (ex. Internships, apprenticeships, etc).

We were thrilled to receive 40... Read more

Are you interested in teaching a microbiology CURE (course-based undergraduate research experience) with real-world relevance? Dr. Jo Handelsman, world-renowned microbiologist and former OSTP Associate Director for President Obama, developed Tiny Earth, a CURE where college students discover new antibiotics in soil bacteria.

There are still a few slots available in the next instructor training January 10-14, 2022 (virtual). The training is FREE! Applications from instructors who identify as members of a group that has historically been excluded from science or who are at minority-serving institutions and two-year colleges are particularly encouraged to APPLY !

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The Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science in the College of Natural Sciences invites applications for a non-tenure track faculty appointment to conduct research in protein biomanufacturing with undergraduates as part of the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) in the new Biomanufacturing stream, in collaboration with principal investigators Andy Ellington and Bryan Davies. FRI merges the teaching and research missions of the university by engaging undergraduates in conducting research project(s) related to a faculty member’s ongoing research ( https://cns.utexas.edu/fri ). Faculty in FRI have the title of “Research Educators” and are responsible for designing and implementing curriculum that... Read more

So many good podcasts, not enough time in the day. That is what I thought when I first took a look at Nature Biotechnology's podcast series, First Rounders . The series is hosted by Brady Huggett and the list of fascinating guests is impressive: Anthony Atala (Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Co-Founder of Precise Bio), Nancy Simonian (President and CEO of Syros Pharaceuticals), and Carl June (Co-Founder of Tmunity Therapeutics and Professor of Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania)--to name just a few. The list of podcast dates goes back to March 7,... Read more

The Student Poster Session was held on October 21, the second full day of the ATE PI conference. It was at noon, Eastern, which meant the attendees from the East Coast could grab lunch while browsing through the 30 posters, and since I am in Washington State, I took a moment to pour another cup of coffee before starting the session. The 30 posters represented 36 students, and the exciting and innovative student projects covered a range of topics such as biofuels, nanoparticles, 3D printing, network traffic analysis, virtual reality, machine learning, and more. Each poster was a tile... Read more

Many communities face greater environmental exposures and public health risks due to a history of inequitable environmental policies and access to the decision-making process. Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

EPA and partners have launched the Environmental Justice (EJ) Video Challenge for Students to enhance communities’ capacity to address environmental and public health inequities. The goals of the challenge are to:

SARS-CoV-2 remains a relevant topic for bio database development. According the the NAR database compendium , and our research, at least 25 SARS-CoV-2 data resources are available to the public. Their Immunoprofiling: How it works specialized topics include immunology, genomics, RNA, proteins, drugs, and SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 literature. This post explores the CoV-AbDab database as a resource for studying how antibodies neutralize the virus to protect against serious disease. Read more

The Program Dean of Life Sciences and Bioscience Technology is responsible for direct oversight of College-wide educational disciplines, programs, and services within one or more of the College’s integrated academic, career, and workforce programs.

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