The Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Generous funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has supported and sustained our efforts to improve science education and promote science literacy.  The HHMI also has a variety of resources for STEM teachers at their web site (links following).

COOL Science

Ask a Scientist

Holiday Lectures on Science

HHMI On-Line Catalog

HHMI Funded Science Education at OSU

In 2006 Oregon State University was granted a renewal of funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HHMI, for improving science education at both the precollege and college level. Funding from the Undergraduate Science Education Program of the HHMI is used to provide support to three areas of science education: K12 outreach, undergraduate research, and undergraduate level curriculum development. Each program has a unique mission. However, the overarching goal for all our programs, improving science education for all students, provides many opportunities for our programs to collaborate. These collaborations allow the OSU HHMI funded programs to impact science education through the entire spectrum from primary through university levels.

Oregon State University:
Program Director: Dr. Dan Arp

K12 Outreach Programs:
SMILE
STEPs

Undergraduate Research Program:
Summer UG Research Program

Curriculum Development:
Graduate Teaching Assistant GTA Development Program: Dr. Robert Mason
The OSU GTA Development Program is described in: Enhancing TA Performance, HHMI Bulletin, November 2009, Vol.22, No. 4. Link to article.

Link to GTA survey instrument.

Genetics and Genomics Research Investigations: Dr. Kari van Zee

Our Partnerships

•       As our name suggests we collaborate with a variety of community partners who share our mission.  Our partners include:

•       Agricultural Education and General Agriculture Department , OSU, Greg Thompson, Chair

•       Benton County OSU Extension

•       Bio-Rad Laboratories

•       Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, OSU, James Carrington, Director

•       Conservation Biology Institute

•       Corvallis Outdoor School

•       Corvallis School District

•       Corvallis Sustainability Coalition

•       Crop and Soil Science Department, OSU

•       ESRI 

•       Global Mapping Technology, Corvallis, OR

•       The Fresh Water Trust

•       Hewlett Packard Company

•       Howard Hughes Medical Institute

•       Mary's Peak Natural Resources Interpretive Center

•       Mary's River Watershed Council

•       NSF Biocomplexity Grant, Dan Arp, P.I., Botany and Plant Pathology Department and Molecular and Cellular Biology program

•       NSF Plant and Microbial Development Grant, John Fowler, P.I., Botany and Plant Pathology Department and Molecular and Cellular Biology program

•       Nunhems Biotech Services Americas, Brooks, Oregon

•       Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI)

•       Oregon Forestry Education Program

•       Oregon State Police DNA Forensics Lab

•       OSU College of Forestry

•       Outreach in Biotechnology Program, OSU

•       Philomath School District

•       Starker Forests

•       Summer Science Institute Portland, OR school district