In 2012, an innovative, collaborative and not unambitious group of program officers from The National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIH) launched the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) as a community of scientists dedicated to department-level implementation of Vision and Change recommendations, nationally. PULSE fellows have started organizing regional PULSE Institutes to work directly with faculty on working towards change.
Sara gave a plenary talk at the Southeastern Regional PULSE Institute entitled "Professional identity as a barrier to faculty pedagogical change." She also co-ran a workshop on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) assessment with Erin Dolan entitled "CUREs: Definition, Outcomes, and Assessment." For more information about the Southeastern Regional PULSE Institute, please click here.