Implementing interdisciplinary sustainability education with the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus

C Romulo, B Venkataraman, S Caplow… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
Growth in the green jobs sector has increased demand for college graduates who are
prepared to enter the workforce with interdisciplinary sustainability skills. Simultaneously …

“It's been a Process”: A Multiple Case Study of Biology Instructor Efforts to Reform their Sex and Gender Curriculum to be More Inclusive of Students with Queer …

EP Driessen, KE Walker, T Hallman… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
Inaccurate sex and gender narratives have saturated the political landscape, resulting in
legal restrictions for people with queer genders. Biology educators can correct these false …

Embracing the inclusion of societal concepts in biology improves student understanding

PE Adams, EP Driessen, E Granados… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the relationship between science and society is included as a core
competency for biology students in the United States. However, traditional undergraduate …

Few LGBTQ+ Science and Engineering Instructors Come Out to Students, Despite Potential Benefits

CA Busch, PB Bhanderi, KM Cooper… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - Am Soc Cell Biol
LGBTQ+ undergraduates have higher attrition from science and engineering (S&E) than
straight and cisgender undergraduates and perceive that having LGBTQ+ instructors would …

Challenging Misconceptions about Race in Undergraduate Genetics

EM Ball, RA Costello, CJ Ballen, RM Graze… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
Racial biases, which harm marginalized and excluded communities, may be combatted by
clarifying misconceptions about race during biology lessons. We developed a human …

Let's talk about sex: instructor views and hesitancies related to sex and gender in the biology classroom

AK Lewis, CC Josefson, TJ Orr… - Integrative and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
There is much current debate in the United States regarding how sex and gender are
approached in science and medical classrooms. There does not seem to be sufficient …

University Biology Classrooms as Spaces for Anti-racist Work: Instructor Motivations for Incorporating Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Content

NL Scheuermann, C Idlebird, S Kukday… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
Science is often portrayed as a meritocratic endeavor, but university biology programs
exhibit high rates of student attrition, particularly among students of Color, despite similar …

A Model for Emotional Intelligence in Biology Education Research

A Tea, D Ovid - CBE—Life Sciences Education, 2024 - lifescied.org
Informed by social science fields including psychology and public health, we propose a
Model for Emotional Intelligence to advance biology education research in affective …

Alabama's attack on DEI hinders STEM teaching

CJ Ballen, PE Adams, EW Burkholder, RA Costello… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Commercial octopus farming is incapable of meeting welfare requirements, unsustainable,
and unnecessary for sustenance (1, 2). Although no commercial octopus farms currently …

Teaching students to effectively evaluate scientific evidence and advocate for research in the context of autism spectrum disorder and the neurodiversity movement

BT Jacques-Fricke - Developmental Biology, 2025 - Elsevier
Connecting socially relevant topics with biological content can boost student engagement
and comprehension. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an increasingly prevalent …