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Collaborative Research: The Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project

image for project 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…

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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…


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Can Science Win Over Climate Change Skeptics?

This article proposes using the nature and process of science as a framework for teaching topics that are often presented to the public as controversial, such as climate change. This…