Sara is en route to Atlanta for the first "Synthesis" meeting of the Faculty Developer Network for Undergraduate Biology Education (FDN-UBE), an NSF-funded RCN-UBE network.
The FDN-UBE's purpose is to advance the professional development of undergraduate biology faculty to improve teaching and learning of biology, consistent with changes in undergraduate biology education that are called for in the Vision and Change report. The network fosters exchanges and partnerships between major constituencies essential for effective biology faculty development through use of all-network synthesis meetings, smaller working group meetings, and online collaboration tools.