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Undergraduate Science Education Program
Through its Undergraduate Science Education Program, HHMI seeks to strengthen the quality of bioscience education for all undergraduate students, including non-science majors, and better prepare students for careers in biomedical research, medicine, and science teaching. Another important goal of the program is to broaden access to science for all students, including underrepresented minorities and others for whom such opportunities are often limited.
Initiatives for Colleges and Universities
These grant initiatives support undergraduate science education and precollege outreach activities at liberal arts colleges and research universities throughout the United States. HHMI funding enables these institutions to expand research opportunities for undergraduates, attract and retain faculty, support new courses and laboratories, and create outreach programs for students and teachers at elementary and secondary schools in their communities, and at local community colleges. Grants are awarded through competitions that are held every two years, alternating between colleges and universities. Participation in the competitions is by invitation only.
HHMI Professors
This competitive grant program is intended to empower leading scientists at research universities to work more closely with undergraduates at their home institutions and to provide other institutions with innovative models for transmitting the excitement and values of scientific research to undergraduate education. Selected institutions are invited by HHMI to nominate faculty members to compete for the HHMI Professors awards. Through participation in the Society of HHMI Professors, current and former HHMI professors are encouraged to share ideas and collaborate to improve science education.
Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP)
EXROP provides talented undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds with summer research experiences in the labs of HHMI investigators and HHMI professors. The students are selected by HHMI professors and invited directors of HHMI-funded undergraduate programs at colleges and universities. EXROP students also attend meetings at HHMI headquarters where they present their research in a poster session, network with their peers and HHMI scientists, and hear from scientific researchers from various backgrounds and stages in their careers.
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Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
A new initiative, Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study, provides up to five years of support for a small group of outstanding former EXROP students to pursue a Ph.D. in the biological sciences. The fellowships are administered by HHMI's Graduate Science Education and Medical Research Training Program. More
National Research Council (NRC)
HHMI helped to fund a study on how best to prepare undergraduates for biomedical research careers. The resulting report, Bio2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists, is available from National Academies Press. The report's findings informed the programmatic objectives of HHMI's recent grant competition for liberal arts colleges.
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