Collaborative Research: The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project
The GENA project is a 3-year MSP RETA that is designed to explore the effects of MSP participation on STEM faculty and provide a model to the MSP community that can be adapted so that MSP participation can be seen as a valuable contribution to a faculty member's work at their institution. Our model stems from the hypothesis that if a disciplinary society (in this case the American Society of Human Genetics) supports this type of work, then that would provide an additional level of exposure and prominence for their members to become involved and to receive recognition from their colleagues in the society and at their home institution.
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Year 3 External Evaluator Report
This report summarizes work across three years of the GENA Project. It was prepared by The Study Group, the project's external evaluators. The GENA Project calls for the establishment of…
Library
A Professional-Society Mediated MSP: Lessons Learned
This paper addresses the following claim(s): "Claim 1: The development of scientifically robust and pedagogically sound lesson plans centered around misconceptions is an effective way for scientific-society partnership projects to…
Resources
GENA 2009 Lesson Plan: How to Turn on Genes
An exploration of differential gene expression
GENA 2009 Lesson Plan: What's Living in My Soil?
Microorganisms and bacteria especially, make up the majority of organisms found on earth. The vast diversity of these organisms is still being discovered and studied. By collecting soil samples from…
