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Newsletter Archive

Delve into a collection of NIST announcements, thought-provoking articles, resource recommendations, and engaging stories that span a range of topics. Would you like to receive the newsletter? Join our mailing list!

Newsletter contents:

  • Letter from the NIST President 

  • Call for Nominations: Executive Committee

  • Addressing Challenges in Teaching 

  • Learning Sanctuary Institute

  • Recommended Summer Reads

  • Featured Podcast

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Getting Ready for the new year

  • Call for Nominations: President

  • 2022 SABER West Conference

  • General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment

  • Diversity, Equity, and Student Success

  • Applying Universal Design for Learning Principles to Existing Case Studies

Recommended Reading, Listening, and Job Opportunities

  • Featured Podcast

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Looking forward through October 

  • 2022 SABER West Conference: Supporting Equitable Transitions in STEM Education 

  • Inclusive STEM Teaching Project on EdEX 

  • Teaching AAC&U Conference - Nothing Stays the Same: Reflecting On, Reckoning With, & Re0Engineering Undergraduate STEM Education

  • Upcoming FALCON: Faculty Learning Community of NIST 

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • What are your plans for July?

  • AAC&U Virtual Conference on Transforming STEM Higher Education 

  • Inclusive STEM Teaching Project on EdEX 

  • Upcoming NIST Happy Hour Topics & Links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Online Writing Studio CourseSource 

  • Course: Inclusive STEM Teaching Project 

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Are you ready to read your student evaluations?

  • Registration: NIST Summer 2021 Workshops

  • Upcoming NIST Happy Hour Topics & Links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Online Writing Studio CourseSource 

  • Striving Towards Inclusion in Academic Biology

  • Course: Inclusive STEM Teaching Project 

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Celebrating Women's History Month!

  • Save the Date: NIST Summer 2021 Workshop

  • Upcoming NIST Happy Hour Topics & Links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Seminar Series: Striving Toward Inclusion in Academic Biology

  • Seminar: Distinguished Women in Science

  • Seminar: Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Farewell from the STEM Team at Yale

  • Upcoming SI Happy Hour links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • #AgainstSurveillence- a critical examination of proctoring companies

  • "CREATE-ive Use of Primary Literature in the Science Classroom"- a mini-review by Aimee Bernard and Kristy Kenyon 

  • "Dear Faculty, Keep Walking"- an article by Mays Imad

  • STEM job postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • STiP Webinar Program Schedule

  • Last call for team scholarship and registration for the Scientific Teaching Short Course

  • Introducing the new elected officers at the National Institute on Scientific Teaching

  • Upcoming "SI Happy Hour!" links

Interesting Articles & Job Opportunities

  • "Structure Matters: 21 Teaching Strategies to Promote Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity"- an article by Kimberley Tanner

  • "Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy" -a study

  • STEM Job Postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Update from the National Institute on Scientific Teaching President and Executive Committee

  • Save-the-date: September 15, 2020 STiP Webinar with Ben Wiggins "Designing Effective Assessments that Go Beyond the Grade"

  • Reserve your seat for either fall Scientific Teaching Short Course starting Sept 16, and Oct 21

  • New "SI Happy Hour!" links

Other Resources, News & Opportunities

  • Open access virtual teaching resources

  • August STEM webinar opportunities and virtual events

  • STEM job postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Many Ways to Participate in the Summer Institutes

  • Register for the June 30, 2020 STiP Webinar, "Taking Field Experiences Online"

  • Save-the-date for the July 15, 2020 STiP Webinar on "Lightning Round Talks: 8 Great Apps for Online Teaching"

  • Apply for the July 29-August 29 Scientific Teaching Short Course

  • SI Happy Hour! links

  • Collaborative planning groups for virtual labs

Other News & Opportunities

  • SABER's annual conference

  • "A Push for Equitable Assessment"- an article by Madeline St. Amour

  • STEM job postings

  • Announcing a One-Year Partnership with Macmillan Learning

  • Save the Date: October 21, STiP Webinar on Concrete Strategies for Creating a More Inclusive Classroom

  • Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom: A New, Massive Online Open Course from Cornell University

  • Building Evidence Connecting Teaching Practices and More Equitable Student Outcomes: Blog Post by Darryl Yong

  • Spotlight on Self-funded MoSI Hosts: University of Arkansas, Little Rock

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Letter from the NIST President 

  • Call for Nominations: Secretary and Members at Large

  • Seeking a Communications Strategist 

  • NIST's Inaugural Learning Sanctuary Institute

STEM Job Opportunities, Workshops, and Resources

  • NCSCE Workshop

  • Job Postings

  • Featured Podcast

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Nearing the end of the term

  • 2022 SABER West Conference

  • General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment

  • Diversity, Equity, and Student Success

  • Applying Universal Design for Learning Principles to Existing Case Studies

  • Upcoming FALCoN

Recommended Reading, Listening, and Job Opportunities

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • What does September hold for you?

  • AAC&U Institute on ePortfolios 

  • Inclusive STEM Teaching Project on EdEX 

  • Teaching Evolution Through a Culturally Competent Lens

  • Upcoming FALCoN: Faculty Learning Community of NIST 

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Are you ready for summer?

  • Teaching Critical Thinking in STEM: Virtual Free Conference 

  • NIST Summer 2021 - Online Regional Summer Institute 

  • Upcoming NIST Happy Hour Topics & Links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Online Writing Studio CourseSource 

  • SABER: Annual Meeting 2021

  • Course: Inclusive STEM Teaching Project 

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

NIST Programs & Announcements

  • Looking forward by looking back: Hindsight is 20/20!

  • Call for proposals: NIST Summer 2021 Workshop

  • Upcoming NIST Happy Hour Topics & Links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Seminar Series: Striving Toward Inclusion in Academic Biology

  • Seminar: Distinguished Women in Science

  • Workshop: Back to Normal? STEM Education and High-Impact Practices Moving Forward

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

Newsletter contents:

  • Bringing in 2021!

  • Upcoming SI Happy Hour links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • Seminar Series - Striving Toward Inclusion in Academic Biology

  • Seminar - Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology

  • Black Feminist Health Science Studies Symposium

  • Featured Articles

  • STEM job postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Save-the-date for the December STiP Webinar with Glen Davenport, "The Wide World of Inclusive Teaching," December 1, 2020

  • Upcoming SI Happy Hour links

Recommended Reading & Listening, Special Events, and Job Opportunities

  • "Don't Weed Out Students. Help Them Flourish" - an article by Andrew Koch, published in The Chronicle of Highter Education 

  • Trauma-informed Teaching and Learning - a podcast by Mays Imad for Teaching in Higher Education

  • Announcing the 2021 Aspire Alliance Virtual Seminar on Inclusive Teaching (Jan 22nd)

  • Announcing the 2021 Massachusetts Project Kaleidoscope Network Winter Meeting (Jan 17th)

  • STEM Job Postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Save-the-date: October 15, 2020 STiP Webinar with Martin Samuels and Jessica Silverman on, "LabXchange"

  • Save-the-date: November 5, 2020 STiP Webinar with Elli Theobold about fresh research showing how, "Active Learning Improves Equity in STEM Classrooms"

  • Team scholarships available for the 6-week Scientific Teaching Short Course beginning on October 21st

  • New "SI Happy Hour!" links

  • SABER's virtual fall series, "Striving for Racial Justice in Academic Biology"

  • Participate in a 9-minute survey about online teaching

SI Programs & Announcements

  • Our next step in establishing a non-profit: announcing elected officers 

  • August 6, 2020 STiP Webinar on "LabXchange" by Rob Lue, Professor and Faculty Director of the Bok Center, Harvard University

  • Reserve your seat for the Scientific Teaching Short Course starting July 29

  • New "SI Happy Hour!" links

  • STEM job postings

SI Programs & Announcements

  • SI Announcement of Continuing Summer Programs

  • Register for the May 22, 2020 STiP Webinar, "Applying Principles of Student Engagement to Address the Online Assessment Dilemma"

  • Save-the-date for the June 3, 2020 STiP Webinar on "Taking Field Experiences Online"

  • This Summer's Flagship SI Event: The Online SI July 20-24

  • SI Happy Hour Links

  • Save-the-date for the June 30th SI Component Workshop on Inclusive Teaching

Other News & Opportunities

  • ASCB Regional Meeting

  • Live Stream Events about Citizen Science in Higher Education

  • STEM Job Postings

  • Save the Date: September 25, STiP Webinar on Scaling Active Learning Strategies to Large Classrooms

  • RCN-UBE Grant Proposal Information from NSF

  • AAS and NSF Report Updating Reform in Undergraduate STEM Ed

  • How to Flip Biology Courses with iBiology

  • Spotlight on Self-funded MoSI Hosts: Harford Community College

  • STEM Education Job Opportunities

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