{"id":2377,"date":"2022-12-08T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:35:12","slug":"bsci-faculty-involved-in-1-1m-grant-to-support-inclusive-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/bsci-faculty-involved-in-1-1m-grant-to-support-inclusive-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"BSCI Faculty Involved in $1.1M Grant to Support Inclusive Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color: black;background: white\">Vanderbilt University has been awarded $1.1M as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Initiative. $530,000 will support Vanderbilt University initiatives directly, while the additional $577,000 will be administered by Vanderbilt University to support activities of the broad collaborative effort. <\/span><span style=\"color: black;background: white\">Biological Sciences\u2019 faculty Kathy Friedman and Cynthia Brame serve as co-Program Directors of the HHMI IE3 program, which aims to help higher education institutions increase their capacity for inclusive learning. As part of this initiative, Biological Sciences will be re-structuring its introductory STEM courses to improve a sense of belonging among all students and to foster their interest in continued STEM education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color: black;background: white\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"color: black;background: white\">Brame and Friedman were recently featured in a<span class=\"contentpasted1\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.vanderbilt.edu%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fvanderbilt-university-awarded-1-1m-as-part-of-the-howard-hughes-medical-institutes-ie3-initiative%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cdallas.albright%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7Caecb2496c52741bf777108dad93e3971%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638061158516352436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=o%2FGF8VtAXL69O3NFQbxbJ%2Fk%2Bvm59fDTSMT6k7eDn9qU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">MyVU article<\/a>, which also mentions involvement of other Biological Sciences faculty: Doug McMahon, who helped spearhead the original IE3 proposal, Julian Hillyer, Todd Graham, Thomas Clements, Jim Pask. This story has also been picked up by<span class=\"contentpasted1\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fmichaeltnietzel%2F2022%2F12%2F02%2Fhoward-hughes-medical-institute-awards-60-million-to-improve-college-science-education%2F%3Fsh%3D1c265a363b86&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cdallas.albright%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7Caecb2496c52741bf777108dad93e3971%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C638061158516352436%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=YwgRL%2BkCgxv3uyZ2pHIG77XcfJ3RgLtAvpo3s%2BcZWCs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Forbes Magazine<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt University has been awarded $1.1M as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Initiative. $530,000 will support Vanderbilt University initiatives directly, while the additional $577,000 will be administered by Vanderbilt University to support activities of the broad collaborative effort. Biological Sciences\u2019 faculty Kathy Friedman and Cynthia Brame serve as co-Program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,8,4],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/22133454\/HHMI-vertical-signature-color-600x390-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/biological-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}