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BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY EDUCATION TO PREPARE RESEARCH SCIENTISTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY LUBERT STRYER (Chair), Stanford University, Stanford, California RONALD BRESLOW, Columbia University, New York, New York JAMES GENTILE, Hope College, Holland, Michigan DAVID HILLIS, University of Texas, Austin, Texas JOHN HOPFIELD, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey NANCY KOPELL, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts SHARON LONG, Stanford University, Stanford, California EDWARD PENHOET, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, California JOAN STEITZ, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut CHARLES STEVENS, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California SAMUEL WARD, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Staff KERRY A. BRENNER, Study Director, Board on Life Sciences ROBERT T. YUAN, Program Officer, Board on Life Sciences JAY B. LABOV, Deputy Director, Center for Education JOAN G. ESNAYRA, Program Officer, Board on Life Sciences BRIDGET K.B. AVILA, Senior Project Assistant, Board on Life Sciences DENISE GROSSHANS, Project Assistant, Board on Life Sciences Editor PAULA T. WHITACRE iv Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES COREY S. GOODMAN (Chair), University of California, Berkeley, California R. ALTA CHARO, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin JOANNE CHORY, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California DAVID J. GALAS, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science, Claremont, California BARBARA GASTEL, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas JAMES M. GENTILE, Hope College, Holland, Michigan LINDA E. GREER, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC ED HARLOW, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts ELLIOT M. MEYEROWITZ, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California ROBERT T. PAINE, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington GREGORY A. PETSKO, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts STUART L. PIMM, Columbia University, New York, New York JOAN B. ROSE, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida GERALD M. RUBIN, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland BARBARA A. SCHAAL, Washington University, St. Louis RAYMOND L. WHITE, DNA Sciences, Inc., Fremont, California Staff FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director JENNIFER KUZMA, Senior Program Officer ROBIN A. SCHOEN, Senior Program Officer KERRY A. BRENNER, Program Officer JOAN G. ESNAYRA, Program Officer MARILEE K. SHELTON, Program Officer EVONNE P.Y. TANG, Program Officer ROBERT T. YUAN, Program Officer BRIDGET K.B. AVILA, Senior Project Assistant DENISE GROSSHANS, Project Assistant VALERIE GUTMANN, Project Assistant SETH STRONGIN, Project Assistant v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. BIO2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists Foreword This report continues the National Academies’ efforts in the reform of education by calling on researchers to recognize the importance of teaching and to join together with educators to promote undergraduate learning. The goal in this case is to prepare the next generation of biological research- ers for the tremendous opportunities ahead. Attaining this goal will require that faculty spend