Evolution: Education and Outreach

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A new online publication about evolution and evolution education is now up. You can find the first issue for the first volume at http://evostudies.org/vol1.html. If you write about evolution education, consider submitting a paper.

From the Consortium’s home page:

The Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium is designed to facilitate the development and implementation of Evolutionary Studies Programs at colleges and universities across the United States. An Evolutionary Studies Program introduces students from all majors to evolutionary theory early in their academic careers, emphasizes human-related subjects in addition to biological, promotes the continuation of evolutionary training throughout the undergraduate education, and promotes faculty training and collaborative research related to evolution.

The EvoS Consortium is a website that provides the tools and a community space for evolutionary training in institutions of higher education. The Consortium website (affiliated with EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium) is a space for both faculty and undergraduate members of Evolutionary Studies Programs, as well as those interested in starting a program. The inaugural consortium members are:

A major goal of the Consortium is growth – we hope to expand the consortium such that EvoS programs replicate widely. As such, we openly welcome other institutions to join. Steps associated with starting an EvoS program and joining the Consortium are described in the pages included in the Membership navigation button to the left.

The EvoS Consortium Website is sponsored by the Expanding Evolutionary Studies in American Higher Education grant from the National Science Foundation (#0817337), awarded jointly to Binghamton University and State University of New York, New Paltz.

So—take a look!

Hi everyone. It looks like there isn’t a problem with comments—you do have to have a Wordpress login, which you can get for free; maybe I should turn off that requirement?

Anyhow, I just found Bug Girl’s blog:

http://membracid.wordpress.com/

and I recommend taking a look. It’s mainly about, well, bugs, and some of the posts are about evolution, though not most. Regardless, it’s intriguing, well-written, fun, and really informative.

Hi everyone—some people are saying that they can’t post comments. I will try to see what can be done about this. Sorry about this.