Teaching Scientists to Teach

In case you missed it, ECCSE Director, Pat Marsteller, got some press this summer about incorporating teaching and communication practices into graduate student education.

Her Communicating Science course for graduate students and post-docs, co-taught with Dr. Meisa Salaita of the Center for Chemical Evolution, was featured in The New York Times. The course helped students learn and practice various ways to communicate with non-scientists, from elevator speeches and blogs about their research, to formal presentations and lesson plans.

Also, Dr. Marsteller co-authored an article in Science responding to NSF funding cuts for graduate education. These cuts affect programs under NSF's GK-12 program, which has funded ECCSE's PRISM program for 9 years.