Northwest PULSE Workshop

为支持本科生生命科学教育伙伴关系(PULSE)，已向华盛顿州立大学颁发了一个奖项，以组织和举办一次研讨会。研讨会定于2013年2月22日至24日在华盛顿州西雅图举行。去年9月，PULSE合作伙伴(HHMI、NIH和NSF)任命了40名愿景与变革领导力研究员，以推动本科生生命科学教育界的变革。所有研究员于2012年10月举行会议，并自那以来组成了四个工作组，以应对在所有类型的本科院校改革生物学教学方式的不同挑战。愿景与变革领导力研究员关注的是生命科学系如何鼓励和奖励教职员工？努力提高本科生命科学教育水平。这样的改进应该会增加学生的学习，应该提高理科学生的保留率，应该让所有学生做好准备，成为更有好奇心和更有科学素养的公民。目前的奖项是资助在华盛顿州西雅图为来自太平洋西北地区各种机构的六名领导力研究员举办的研讨会。这些研究员中至少有一人是每个较大的PULSE工作组的成员。研讨会于2月22日开始，恰逢华盛顿大学生物教育研究小组定期召开会议，该小组为普吉特海湾地区的机构提供服务。本次研讨会的主要目标是计划召开一次关于采用远景与变革建议的地区性会议，与会人员包括学生、教职员工和管理人员。太平洋西北地区的机构在各种教育改革和区域教育网络方面已经有了很好的合作历史。这次地区性会议将通过接触阿拉斯加、怀俄明州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州等目前尚未由PULSE领导力研究员代表的州的机构来扩大PULSE的影响。这一区域网络将成为测试四个PULSE工作组正在开发的资源的“实验室”，预计本次讲习班的区域重点将成为其他研究金小组与生命科学界成员举行会议的样板。研讨会和大型会议的结果将主要通过www.Pulsecomomity.org网站与生命科学界分享。

An award has been made to Washington State University to organize and conduct a workshop in support of the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE). This workshop is scheduled for February 22-24, 2013 in Seattle, WA. Last September, the PULSE partners (HHMI, NIH, and NSF) appointed 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows to stimulate transformative changes in the undergraduate life science education community. All Fellows met in October, 2012 and have since organized into four working groups to address different challenges to reforming how biology is taught at all types of undergraduate institutions. The Vision and Change Leadership Fellows are focusing on how life science departments can encourage and reward faculty members? efforts to improve undergraduate life sciences education. Such improvements should increase student learning, should increase retention rates for students in the sciences, and should prepare all students to be more curious and scientifically literate citizens. The current award is to fund a workshop in Seattle, WA for six of the Leadership Fellows from a variety of institution types located within the Pacific Northwest. At least one of these Fellows is a member of each of the larger PULSE working groups. The beginning of the workshop on February 22 will coincide with the regular meeting of the Biology Education Research Group at the University of Washington that serves institutions in the Puget Sound area. The major goal of this workshop is to plan a regional conference on adopting the Vision and Change recommendations that will include students, faculty, and administrators. Institutions in the Pacific Northwest have a strong history already of working together on a variety of educational reforms and regional educational networks. This regional conference will expand the impact of PULSE by reaching out to institutions from states such as Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho that are currently not represented by the PULSE Leadership Fellows. This regional network will be a "laboratory" for testing the resources being developed by the four PULSE working groups, and the regional focus of this workshop is expected to serve as a model for meetings of other groups of Fellows with members of the life sciences community. Results from the workshop and the larger conference will be shared with the life sciences community, primarily via the www.pulsecommunity.org website.