Gateway Sciences Initiative
About GSI
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.
White Paper
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]
Media Coverage
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
Faculty Steering Committee
Gateway Sciences Initiative Faculty Steering Committee Members | |||||
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Steven David | Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of Political Science | KSAS | Mary Otterbein | ||
Marie Diener-West | Chair, Master of Public Health Program | BSPH | Rebecca Newcomer | ||
David Andrews | Dean and Professor | SoEd | April Stanson | ||
| Gregory Ball | Vice Dean for Science and Research Infrastructure | KSAS | gball@jhu.edu | ||
Richard Brown | Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Mathematics | KSAS |
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Michael Falk | Associate Professor | WSE |
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Chris Falzone | Associate Research Professor of Chemistry | KSAS |
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Elaine Hansen | Executive Director | CTY | Heather Bumps | ||
John Harrington | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor | SAIS | Robin Andrews | ||
Pam Jeffries | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor | SoN | Holly Powers | ||
Howard Katz | Professor and Chair, Materials Science and Engineering | WSE |
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Tom Koenig | Associate Dean for Student Affairs | SoM | Cheryl Bryant | ||
Jon Links | Professor of Environmental Health Sciences | BSPH |
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Jon Lorsch | Professor of Biophysics | SoM |
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Dan Reich | Chair and Professor of Physics | KSAS |
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Ben Schafer | Chair, Dept. of Civil Engineering and Swirnow Family Scholar Professor of Civil Engineering | WSE |
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Edward Scheinerman | Vice Dean for Education, Professor of Applied Math and Statistics | WSE | Jessica Swadow | ||
Joel Schildbach | Professor of Biology | KSAS |
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Stephen Wilson | Professor of Mathematics | KSAS |
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Scott Zeger | Vice Provost for Research, Professor of Biostatistics | PO, BSPH | Ellie Heasley | ||
Candice Dalrymple | Associate Dean of University Libraries and Director, Center for Educational Resources | CER |
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Angela Zeng | Policy Analyst | PO |
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