Million-Dollar Teaching Award

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is inviting natural science professors to apply for a grant to fund innovative undergraduate education.

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) will give up to 15 science professors $1 million over 5 years to incorporate their research into their teaching.

The award was announced yesterday (March 14), and natural sciences professors are eligible if they teach at any of the around 100 schools classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as having “very high” research activity.

“We are looking for scientists who have already thought about how to integrate their research with their student activities and who are motivated to pursue tough questions, but who may not have had the time or resources to implement their ideas,” David Asai, HHMI’s director for precollege and undergraduate science education, said in a press release.

HHMI launched the award in ...

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