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GRADUATE RESOURCES

Advanced Study & Career Development

Graduate Programs
This lists offers information about graduate prograsm in the plant sciences. Click to find links for financial aid and to specific colleges & universities.

ASPB Diversity Bank
The ASPB Diversity Bank was initiated to promote diversity in plant biology. The ASPB Diversity Bank is an online database of Summer Research Projects and Research Seminars. Projects in Plant Biology are available to Underrepresented Faculty and Undergraduate Students seeking them. Seminars on plant biology research by visiting ASPB scientists are available to minority serving institutions. ASPB members are encouraged to contribute project opportunities and seminar topics. Especially encouraged to apply are faculty and undergrad students who are either underrepresented in Plant Biology or located at minority serving institutions.

How to Make a Great Poster
Generate interest in your work & present your results effectively by incorporating this advice on content, form, and detail into your research poster.

How to Conduct a Successful Prospective Postdoc Interview
Use these essential questions during your postdoc interview to learn more about the fellowship and determine whether it’s the optimal setting for you to officially begin your career. Interview questions are courtesy of http://www.sacnas.org/sacnews.cfm.

Graduate Resource Links
This list provides links to associations, digital libraries, fellowships, and research programs of particular interest to graduate students.

Teaching & Outreach

The Science of Teaching and Learning: Teachers' Participation in Research Programs Improves Their Students' Achievement in Science
This article explains how a summer research program for teachers enhanced teachers' skills in communicating science to students, students' achievement scores, and teacher job satisfaction. The full article is available at Science 16 October 2009 (payment may be required).

How to be a great ASPB Outreach Volunteer
Each year the Education Committee Prepares and presents dynamic, interactive plant science booths at a variety of outreach venues. ASPB members who are passionate about plant science education voluntarily staff the booths. Click & learn how YOU can volunteer as an ASPB representative at a booth this year.

Genomics Digital Lab (GDL) Project
This first place winner in the NSF 2008 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge offers a series of curriculum-aligned and integrated games, modules, and interactive simulations covering an array of topics in biology. GDL is a continually expanding interactive on-line environment where users experience the world of biology through discovery-based learning. GDL was created in conjunction with ASPB member and GAP winner David Salt's Genomics eXplorer, an interactive walk-through plant cell.

A Contest for Plant Biology Videos on YouTube
This open competition is for the best new plant biology videos published on YouTube. Created by ASPB Grant Award Program winner Dan Cosgrove, the contest aims (a) to encourage budding film makers and other creative individuals to produce informative and entertaining plant biology videos, (b) to increase the availability and range of short videos for use by educators, (c) to increase exposure of the public, particularly younger members of society, to plant biology, and (d) to establish a simple webpage with links to recommended videos.

ScienceDaily will keep you (and your students) up to date on the latest research news. This extensive archive covers plant science topics such as agriculture, food, ecology, cell biology, genetics, microbes and much, much more.

The ASPB K-12 Education Page and the ASPB Undergraduate Education Page both offer many resources to facilitate your education outreach efforts. These resources include: plant science radio shows, videos, websites, computer gamies, news, information on outreach volunteering, and classroom-ready teaching materials.

Fostering Change in Undergraduate Biology Education – What Can ASPB Do?
Find out how YOU can get involved in the shared vision that scientists from NSF, ASPB. AIBS, and AAAS have developed to improve undergraduate education by incorporating Concept Literacy, Active & Experiential Learning, and Broad Career Horizons.

What Can You Do to Improve STEM Instruction and Learning?
Read Ready, Set Science! Putting Research to Work in K-8 Classrooms (RSS), a user-friendly derivative of NRC's echnical tome Taking Science to School (TSS). Click to learn about the eight chapters and four appendixes filled with validated teaching techniques and sample teaching vignettes designed to clarify the four most effective strands of science instruction.

Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education
This is a peer-reviewed journal written by and for educators in the life sciences, natural resources, and agriculture disciplines. The American Society of Agronomy publishes JNRLSE once a year in printed format and/or CD-ROM, and continuously in electronic format for educators in extension, university, industry, administration, and grades K-16.

Understanding the Plant Immune System
NSF-funded research is greatly expanding our basic knowledge of the plant immune system. This knowledge is enabling development of new disease-resistant crop varieties that will require far fewer pesticide applications and provide higher yield. This pamphlet was prepared by Roger Innes and Pam Ronald for ASPB.

Ancient Plant Provides Clues
Teaching evolutionary biology? Read about NSF-funded project that's providing clues to this ancient mystery.