AAAS Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction!

Science‘s IBI Prize was developed to showcase outstanding materials, usable in a wide range of schools and settings, for teaching introductory science courses at the college level. The materials must be designed to encourage students’ natural curiosity about how the world works, rather than to deliver facts and principles about what scientists have already discovered.  With a team of scientists and educators at Carleton College and Vassar College, we developed Web-based Genomics Explorers to help guide students through the process of developing authentic research projects in genomics and bioinformatics.  We were awarded the IBI Prize, accompanied by an essay published in the January 25 issue of Science.