The fledgling campus has become the anchor of a science and technology corridor and offers an undergraduate science program that is widely admired at the National Science Foundation and other important scientific institutions.
The new grants, which range from $1.2 million to $2.2 million over 4 years, will boost an undergraduate science program that HHMI launched 10 years ago.
Lyman Briggs College is an undergraduate science program established at Michigan State University (MSU) in 1967 (Sweeder et al., 2012).
Of course, my optimism and confidence may have much to do with being based in Britain, where science is riding high on a wave of popularity at the moment, including in undergraduate science programs.
It's a significant improvement, but nowhere near the 50 per cent mark, despite the rapid growth of women in undergraduate science programs.
Undergraduate science programs are not providing graduates with the knowledgebase and skills they need to be successful on today's job market.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMII) and others have challenged administrators of undergraduate science programs to provide more opportunities for research experiences (National Science Foundation, 2000; Wenzel and Karukstis, 2004; Anderson et al., 2011), echoing a number of articles on science education published over the past century (Mariken et al., 2009).
Frankie switched to MIT's undergraduate Science Writing program, where she was able to combine her background in STEM with her love of communication, and graduated with a B.S. in June 2017.
There are plans to expand science writing courses for undergraduates beginning this fall, she says, with the goal of building up an extended undergraduate science writing program that would award a master's degree after an extra year of study, with concentrations in brain science, environmental science, and public health.
This space has been an asset for the undergraduate plant science program and facilitates collaboration and inclusiveness.
The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.
