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Graduate student Kathryn Danielson (SEPAL) won best poster at the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World in Monterey, CA for her poster entitled “Investigating advanced undergraduate science students’ conceptions & misconceptions of ocean acidification”.

Graduate student Rachel Dorfman (Stillman Lab) received an honorable mention for her poster entitled “Transcriptome response of Emiliania huxleyi to high temperature and CO2″. Congratulations Kathryn and Rachel!

CCB FEST Featured on SF State News!

Read the published article here!

SF State biology department receives $1.5 million HHMI grant to support science teaching!

Read the press release here!

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SFSU Community Service Learning Award

Jainee Lewis,  Spectrum science partner and SFSU Biology graduate student receives SFSU Community Service Learning Award for her work as a pioneering leader and mentor in SEPAL’s NIH-funded Spectrum Program designed to encourage girls and women of color to seek careers in biomedical science. Congratulations Jainee! 

SEPAL on the ROAD…

National Teaching Award

Kimberly Tanner receives National Teaching Award, named Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher! Read more about it here.

Fall 2011

* San Francisco State hosts Expanding Your Horizons, Saturday, October 29, 2011. For more    information please go to www.sf-eyh.com

* Kimberly Tanner gives talk at CSU Fullerton

* Dr. Angela Johnson is Spectrum Dinner & Dialogue guest speaker (10.6.11)

* Kimberly Tanner is named Academy of Sciences Fellow

Spring 2011

* Carol Umanzor, SEPAL lab graduate student, receives the 2011 Graduate Distinguished Achievement Award! Congratulations Carol!

* Congratulations to Spectrum participant, SPIKE alumnae, and Cell and Molecular Biology major Silvia Gonzales for being selected as the 2011 Biology Undergraduate Honoree!

* Congratulations to Kathryn Danielson, SEPAL lab graduate student, for being in the first cohort of NSF awardees doing biology education research!!

Read SEPAL Alumn Jeff Schinske’s new article about open-ended assessment in lecture classes, published in the Journal of College of Science Teaching!