Summer Institute
Featured Activities and Reports
  • 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.
  • New website
  • The Summer Institute is pleased to unveil its new website. All of the previous information is still here, but hopefully easier to find. Please contact us with any feedback or questions.
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People associated with the Summer Institute

National Research Council Committee on the Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology
Jo Handelsman (Co-chair)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Chair and Professor of Bacteriology
Professor of Plant Pathology
Director, Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
University of Wisconsin-Madison

William B. Wood (Co-chair)
Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder


Kenneth C. Burtis
Dean and Professor of Genetics
College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis

Clarissa Dirks
Assistant Profesor of Biology
The Evergreen State College

Jose P. Mestre
Professor of Physics and Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Diane K. O'Dowd
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology
Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine

James H. Stith
Vice President
Physics Resources Center
American Institute of Physics

Robin L. Wright
Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota

National Academies Staff
Adam P. Fagen
Senior Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council

Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communications
Center for Education
National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council

Local Organizing Group
Sarah Miller
Co-Director
Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching

Christine Pfund
Co-Director
Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
Associate Director
Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning

Lillian Tong
Undergraduate Education Coordinator
Director of Faculty/Staff Programs
Center for Biology Education

James Young
Executive Director
Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching

To contact any member of the Summer Institute team, please click here for more information.

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