Summer Institute
Featured Activities and Reports
  • 2009 Institute
  • The 2009 Summer Institute will be held June 21-27, 2009, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. Additional information will be made available in early 2009.
  • Participant map
  • Summer Institute teams have come from institutions coast to coast: from Florida to Alaska, from Hawaii to New England. See a new participant map to learn which institutions have sent teams to the Summer Institute.
End of featured activities

2006 Mentors, Speakers, and Facilitators

Kenneth Burtis
Professor of Genetics
Interim Dean, College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis
2005 Summer Institute participant
Nancy DiIulio
Instructor of Biology
Case Western Reserve University
2004 Summer Institute participant
Clarissa Dirks
Lecturer in Biology
Coordinator, UW/HHMI Programs in Science
2004 Summer Institute participant
Diane Ebert-May
Professor of Plant Biology
Michigan State University
Adam Fagen
Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
The National Academies
Jo Handelsman
Co-Director, 2006 Summer Institute
HHMI Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mary Huba
Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Iowa State University
Jay Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communications
Center for Education
National Research Council
The National Academies
Brian Manske
Assistant Faculty Associate
Department of Zoology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2005 Summer Institute participant
Sarah Miller
Co-Director, Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Mort
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Assistant Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
University of Kansas
2005 Summer Institute participant
Diane O'Dowd
HHMI Professor
Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology and of Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
2005 Summer Institute participant
Christine Pfund
Co-Director, Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
Associate Director, Delta Program: Integrating Research, Teaching, and Learning
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lillian Tong
Undergraduate Education Coordinator
Director of Faculty/Staff Programs
Center for Biology Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michelle Withers
Instructor of Biological Sciences
Lousiana State University
2004 Summer Institute participant
William Wood
Co-Director, 2006 Summer Institute
Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado-Boulder
Robin Wright
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota


Note: All affiliations as of May 2006.

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