The Provost’s Gateway Sciences Initiative is a multi-dimensional program to improve and enrich learning of gateway sciences at Johns Hopkins University for undergraduate and graduate students. Through a grant program, a Symposium on Teaching Excellence, and a new Faculty Forum on Teaching series, the University seeks to improve our understanding of how students learn and to promote pedagogical innovation in courses that form the foundation for, or provide a gateway to, more advanced work in sciences, engineering, and quantitative studies. As a part of this initiative, Johns Hopkins will provide grants to support a variety of competitively selected instructional enhancement projects. All projects will align with sound pedagogical practice and will include rigorous assessment plans. Our goal is to generate and disseminate evidence of educational excellence to the deans, chairs, directors, and faculty who make decisions on curriculum development and instructional resource allocation at Johns Hopkins.
The Johns Hopkins Gateway Sciences Initiative seeks to advance our understanding of how students most effectively learn gateway sciences and promote pedagogical innovation that permits students to attain competency at the introductory level as rapidly as they are capable of doing. A background document that explains the genesis of this initiative can be found here:
A Proposal for the Johns Hopkins University Gateway Sciences Initiative. [PDF]
The JHU Newsletter, January 31, 2013
University holds symposium to discuss Gateway Sciences Initiative
The JHU Hub, January 23, 2013
New perspectives on teaching science
Voice of America, May 18, 2012
Colleges Innovate to Fill Science Job Surplus
The Johns Hopkins Magazine, March 1, 2012
So Long, Lecture Hall
The Washington Post, February 15, 2012
Colleges Looking Beyond the Lecture
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, February 1, 2012
University hold Symposium on Teaching Excellence in the Sciences
Inside Higher Ed, January 23, 2012
Standing Up for Teaching
Welch Library Blog, January 19, 2012
Interview with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County
The JHU Gazette, January 9, 2012
Inaugural GSI Grants Announced: 10 Pilot Programs to be Unveiled at Jan. 20 Symposium
The JHU Gazette, December 5, 2011
Ratcheting Up Teaching of Sciences: Daylong Session Will Gather Experts to Share Ideas
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, September 15, 2011
“Gateway” is Intro to Intros
The JHU Gazette, August 29, 2011
Can We Build Better Science Courses?
Gateway Sciences Grant Applications Wanted
| Name | Position | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Schildbach | Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education; Professor, Dept. of Biology | KSAS | [email protected] |
| Marie Diener-West | Chair, Master of Public Health Program; Abbey-Merrell Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics Education |
BSPH | [email protected] |
| David Andrews | Dean of the School of Education and Professor | SoE | [email protected] |
| Richard Brown | Director of Undergraduate Studies; Assoc. Teaching Professor, Dept. of Mathematics | KSAS | [email protected] |
| Michael Falk | Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering | WSE | [email protected] |
| Chris Falzone | Teaching Professor, Dept. of Chemistry | KSAS | [email protected] |
| Sharon Gerecht | Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | WSE | [email protected] |
| Elaine Hansen | Executive Director, Center for Talented Youth | ||
| John Harrington | Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs; Professorial Lecturer, International Economics Program | SAIS | [email protected] |
| Howard Katz | Professor and Chair, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering | WSE | [email protected] |
| Tom Koenig | Assoc. Dean for Student Affairs; Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science | SoM | [email protected] |
| Jon Links | Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences | BSPH | [email protected] |
| Maria Merritt | Assoc. Professor, Dept. of International Health | BSPH | [email protected] |
| Dan Reich | Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy | KSAS | [email protected] |
| Ben Schafer | Swirnow Family Scholar Professor and Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering | WSE | [email protected] |
| Edward Scheinerman | Vice Dean for Education; Professor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics | WSE | [email protected] |
| Stephen Wilson | Professor, Dept. of Mathematics | KSAS | [email protected] |
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| Scott Zeger | Director of Hopkins inHealth; Professor, Dept. of Biostatistics | BSPH | [email protected] |
| Candice Dalrymple | Assoc. Dean of University Libraries and Director, Center for Educational Resources | CER | [email protected] |
| Kelly Clark | Program Manager | PO | [email protected] |