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EditorialWinds of changeDee U. Silverthorn, Dee U. SilverthornUniversity of Texas at Austin Austin TX 78712 , Editor-in-ChiefPublished Online:01 Dec 2004https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00047.2004MoreSectionsPDF (26 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations Beginning with this issue and going forward, you will notice new features and additions to Advances. Some of the changes arrive on the coat-tails of Hurricane Charley, who decided to join our August editors’ meeting near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Other changes result from the transformation of News in Physiological Sciences into Physiology.THE PHYSIOLOGY TEACHERThis issue contains the first edition of our new feature titled The Physiology Teacher. (For those of you who have been around long enough: Yes, this was a feature published in The Physiologist prior to the creation of Advances. The title was too good to let it disappear.) The Physiology Teacher is a column in which we celebrate the achievements of APS members as educators and educational researchers. It will contain announcements of local, state, and national teaching awards; information about grants funded for educational research; abstracts of the projects being conducted by recipients of the APS Teaching Career Development Awards; and recognition for other educational activities. In addition, it will feature profiles of the Society’s annual Guyton Educator of the Year and the Teaching Section’s Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecturer.If you are an APS member and have recently received a teaching award or an educational grant, we would like to recognize your achievement. For teaching awards, please include your name, affiliation, the date and title of the award, and a short note about the award criteria/selection process. If your institution produces a press announcement for the award, you may send that instead. For educational grants, please send the names of the principal investigators and their affiliations, project title, granting agency, award amount and duration, and (optional) one or two sentences explaining the goals and objectives of the project. All information for The Physiology Teacher should be sent to Charles Tipton, Associate Editor ([email protected]).EXPANDED REVIEWSIn August 2004, the APS journal News in Physiological Sciences (NIPS) was transformed into Physiology, with an emphasis on news, commentary, and reviews of cutting-edge physiological developments. As a result of this change in focus, Advances will assume the original mission of NIPS, which was to update teachers of physiology about the discipline through short reviews with illustrations that could be used in the classroom. In coming issues you will find expanded review coverage of physiology, technology, and pedagogy in the Staying Current section of the journal.REVISED MISSION STATEMENTIn response to these and other planned changes, the editors have revised the journal’s mission statement. The paragraph below will appear on the journal’s homepage.Advances in Physiology Education is dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning physiology, both in specialized courses and in the broader context of general biology education. Advances also aims to increase recognition of physiology education as a scholarly activity. The journal publishes peer-reviewed descriptions of new strategies for teaching in the classroom and laboratory, essays on education, and review articles for teachers on our current understanding of physiological mechanisms, new technology for teaching and research, and pedagogy. Columns provide reviews of textbooks and other learning resources, annotated bibliographies of relevant articles from other journals or web sites, profiles of physiology educators, and notices and reports of meetings of interest.As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Readers who are interested in writing review articles on physiological topics should contact Barbara Goodman ([email protected]), Associate Editor for Staying Current: Physiology. If you would like to write an educational review on contemporary methods used in physiological research, please contact George Ordway ([email protected]), Associate Editor for Staying Current: Technology. Other comments may be directed to me at [email protected].This article has no references to display. Download PDF Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 28Issue 4December 2004Pages 130-130 Copyright & Permissions© 2004 American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00047.2004History Published online 1 December 2004 Published in print 1 December 2004 Metrics