[Plsgs] FW: Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education at NSF Seminar

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

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This message is sent on behalf of the UA AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Project Team:

Colleagues - the UA AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Project invites you to join us for an engaging discussion with Susan Singer, Division Director for Undergraduate Education at NSF.

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Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education at NSF

Monday, March 9, 2015
2:00-3:30pm
Kiva Room, Student Union

Refreshments will be served.
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Susan Rundell Singer is Division Director for  Undergraduate Education at NSF and Laurence McKinley Gould Professor, in the Biology and Cognitive Science Departments at Carleton. She is a national leader in undergraduate education policy and pursues a career that integrates science and education.   In addition to a PhD in biology from Rensselaer, she completed a teacher certification program in New York State. A developmental biologist who studies flowering in legumes and also does research on learning in genomics, Susan is a AAAS fellow and received both the American Society of Plant Biology teaching award and Botanical Society of America Charles Bessey teaching award. She directed Carleton's Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, was an NSF program officer in Biology, and is a co-author of the Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology report and an introductory biology text.   She has served on numerous boards, including the NSF EHR advisory committee, Biological Sciences Curriculum Study Board, the American Society of Plant Biology Education Foundation, and the Botanical Society board of directors; is a member-at-large for the AAAS Education Section; participates in the Minnesota Next Generation Science Standards team; and was a member of the National Academies' Board on Science Education. She has participated in six National Academies studies, including chairing the committees that authored America's Lab Report, Promising Practices in STEM Undergraduate Education and Discipline-based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering.
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