Sustaining CBE—Life Sciences Education

The American Science Pipeline: Sustaining Innovation in a Time of Economic Crisis

Significant limitations have emerged in America's science training pipeline, including inaccessibility, inflexibility, financial limitations, and lack of diversity. We present three effective programs that collectively address these challenges. The programs are grounded in rigorous science and integrate through diverse disciplines across undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students, and r...

On the Edge of Mathematics and Biology Integration: Improving Quantitative Skills in Undergraduate Biology Education

The challenges future biologists face dictate a change in the way we prepare undergraduates who wish to pursue a career in the life sciences. In A New Biology for the 21st Century (National Research Council [NRC], 2009), four main challenges are articulated: enabling sustainable food plant growth in changing environments, sustaining ecosystems and biodiversity in rapidly changing environs, expa...

Recent Research in Science Teaching and Learning

This feature is designed to point CBE—Life Sciences Education readers to current articles of interest in life sciences education, as well as more general and noteworthy publications in education research. URLs are provided for the abstracts or full text of articles. For articles listed as “Abstract available,” full text may be accessible at the indicated URL for readers whose institutions subsc...

A Year of Firsts

This editorial recounts highlights from 2013 for CBE—Life Sciences Education and notes activities on the horizon for 2014.

All I really needed to know I learned during gastrulation.