Implications of Learning Research for Teaching Science to Non-Science Majors part of Backgrounders
Implications of Learning Research for Teaching Science to Non-Science Majors Eugenia Etkina - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jose P. Mestre - University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary In this paper ...

Hunger, Science, and Public Policy part of Backgrounders
Raymond F. Hopkins - Swarthmore College (About the author) Summary This essay examines what it means to be hungry in a time of relative abundance of food. The authors define what they mean by "hunger", ...

HIV/AIDS: The Once and Future Epidemic part of Backgrounders
Richard P. Keeling, MD -Keeling & Associates, Inc. About the Author July 2003 Summary Students, as future leaders, health care workers, money managers, decision- makers, traders, determiners of foreign policy, ...

Reinventing Myself as a Professor part of Backgrounders
Reinventing Myself as a Professor: The Catalytic Role of SENCER Terry R. McGuire - Rutgers University (About the author) July 2005 Summary I agreed to write this SENCER Backgrounder to describe the types of things ...

HIV/AIDS and Education in Africa part of Backgrounders
HIV/AIDS and Education in Africa Debra Meyer - Rand Afrikaans University AWSE (about the author) July 2003 Summary After more than two decades of AIDS, the pandemic in Africa is still spiraling out of control. ...

Tuberculosis: Ancient Foe, Modern Scourge part of Backgrounders
Tuberculosis: Ancient Foe, Modern Scourge Richard A. Fluck - Franklin and Marshall College (About the author) Topics of Interest to the SENCER Community Overview of the Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of ...

SSI 2002 Teams Selected part of Newsletter Articles
Congratulations to the following schools who have been invited to send full teams to the SENCER Institute this summer.

African University Teams at SSI 2002 part of Newsletter Articles
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2002, Volume 1, Issue 2 Through a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) under the University ...

Announcing the SSI 2003 Representatives part of Newsletter Articles
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2003, Volume 2, Issue 1 We are pleased to announce that representatives from the following colleges, universities, and institutions will be attending the SENCER Summer Institute - 2003: ...

SENCER Classrooms: Small Changes, Big Effects part of Newsletter Articles
SENCER E-Newsletter, June 2003, Volume 2, Issue 1 SENCER Classrooms: Small Changes, Big Effects Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers and an SSI-2002 advance representative, reports how two ...