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American Institute of Biological Sciences
July 2011 Newsletter |
Top news highlights from across our programmatic areas:
 July BioScience now online!
- Teaching Workshops Fail to Spur Learner-centered Teaching: Professional development workshops for college teachers, designed to encourage the use of active, "learner-centered" teaching methods, may be less effective than the participants believe.
- Upgrading Undergraduate Biology Education: On many campuses throughout the country, undergraduate biology education is in serious need of an upgrade.
 Peer Review
We have seen a resurgence of Dengue Fever, also known as the "Neglected Disease", in the United States. AIBS is assisting with peer review of research to seek a vaccination.
 Public Policy
Register now for the 3rd Annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. Registration closes on July 15, 2011.
 Public Programs
Biological research takes diverse forms--from field research to computer modeling to lab work. Help the public and policymakers to better understand the breadth of biology by entering the Faces of Biology Photo Contest.
 Announcements
-AIBS Past President Joseph Travis, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University and a distinguished researcher in the field of ecological genetics, has won the 2011 E.O. Wilson Naturalist Award for his contributions to biology.
 -2009 AIBS President Professor May Berenbaum, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her groundbreaking work on the science behind the bee population collapse and on the genetics of coevolution between plants and insects.
Sponsor
 The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the premier award for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind. Through their work, Tyler Laureates have focused worldwide attention on environmental problems by their discoveries and the solutions that resulted.
Accepting nominations for 2012. For more information contact the Tyler Prize Administrator, Amber Brown, at 213-740-6559 or amberb@usc.edu or visit http://tylerprize.usc.edu/.
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