Summer Institute
Featured Activities and Reports
  • 2010 Institute
  • The 2010 Summer Institute will be held June 21-26, 2010, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.
  • Science article
  • The 24 April 2009 issue of Science magazine includes an article by Pfund et al. about the Summer Institute and its impact. More
  • Participant map
  • Summer Institute teams have come from institutions coast to coast: from Florida to Alaska, from Hawaii to New England. See a participant map to learn which institutions have sent teams to the Summer Institute.
End of featured activities

2009 Mentors, Speakers, and Facilitators

Janet Branchaw
Undergraduate/Faculty Enhancement Program Director
Center for Biology Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2006 Summer Institute participant
Kenneth Burtis
Professor of Genetics
Dean, College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis
2005 Summer Institute participant
Clarissa Dirks
Assistant Professor of Biology
The Evergreen State College
2004 Summer Institute participant
Lianna Etchberger
Assistant Professor of Biology
Uintah Basin Campus
Utah State University
2007 Summer Institute participant
Adam Fagen
Senior Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council of The National Academies
Responsible Staff Officer, National Academies Summer Institute
Jo Handelsman
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Chair and Professor of Bacteriology
Professor of Plant Pathology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-Chair, Summer Institute Committee
Mark Hens
Associate Professor of Biology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2008 Summer Institute participant
Bradley Hyman
Professor of Biology
University of California, Riverside
2007 Summer Institute participant
Jay B. Labov
Senior Advisor for Education and Communications
Center for Education
National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council
Jose P. Mestre
Professor of Physics and Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarah Miller
Co-Director
Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christine Pfund
Co-Director, Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching
Associate Director, Delta Program: Integrating Research, Teaching, and Learning
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jill Sible
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Associate Dean for Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising, College of Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
2008 Summer Institute participant
James Stith
Vice President Emeritus
Physics Resource Center
American Institute of Physics
Lillian Tong
Undergraduate Education Coordinator
Director of Faculty/Staff Programs
Center for Biology Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graciela Unguez
Associate Professor of Biology
New Mexico State University
2008 Summer Institute participant
Mary Pat Wenderoth
Senior Lecturer of Biology
University of Washington
2006 Summer Institute participant
Michelle Withers
Assistant Professor of Biology
West Virginia University
2004 Summer Institute participant
Bill Wood
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado-Boulder
Co-Chair, Summer Institute Committee
Robin Wright
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota


This year, we will also be joined by a number of Scientific Teaching Postdocs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
  • Lori Adams-Phillips, Department of Plant Pathology
  • Karen Cloud-Hansen, Department of Bacteriology
  • Stacy Hagemeier, Department of Oncology
  • Lisa Lenertz, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
  • Xueqing Liu, Department of Biochemistry
  • Amy Prunuske, Department of Biochemistry



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