Moving Education Forward

Moving Education Forward, Again!

Educating biologists and computational biologists in methods and analyses is an ever-growing challenge. The amount of data and tools available to the scientific community continue to grow, and with that, there is a growing need to teach how to get the most out of this information. The PLOS Computational Biology Education section was launched in January 2006 [1] to address this challenge, with t...

Moving Education Forward

The need to train biologists in computational methods is greater than ever before. Recently, I asked an MIT Biology Professor if his newer graduate students were more knowledgeable in bioinformatics and computational biology than in past years. He hesitated and said he needed to think more about it; there wasn’t a clear answer. What is clear, however, is that most graduate students are computer...

Moving Medical Education and Sexuality Education Forward

Despite well-documented sexual health disparities, medical school training in human sexuality remains limited. Our intents with this paper are to deconstruct the successes and challenges in including sexuality education in medical education and to pose critical questions for moving medical education and sexuality education forward. We offer future systematic level strategies for consideration, ...

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.