Teaching Award Research Articles

Editorial introductions.

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology was launched in 1989. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of obstetrics and gynecology is divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Emre SeliEmre SeliEmre Seli, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine, USA. Dr Seli received his medical degree from the University of Istanbul, Turkey, and completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University. His postdoctoral training included a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility as well as a research fellowship in molecular biology, both at Yale University. The primary focus of his research program is to understand and treat infertility. His laboratory characterized mechanisms regulating translational activation of gene expression in the oocyte. Dr Seli and his colleagues also made seminal contributions to our understanding of oocyte and embryo competence in IVF and the potential role of non-invasive diagnostic technologies in this context. Dr Seli is the recipient of many National Institutes of Health (NIH) and pharmaceutical industry-sponsored research grants. He has trained more than 50 pre- and post-doctoral fellows, published more than 100 scientific articles, and received numerous research awards, including the Ira and Ester Rosenwaks New Investigator Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), and the President's Achievement Award from the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI). Dr Seli's current research focuses on determinants of oocyte and embryo health, and mechanisms of ovarian ageing. Dr Seli is actively involved in professional societies and scientific journals. He served as the Program Director for SRI in 2016, where he is now the Program Committee Chair (2016–2021). He has also been a member of the ASRM Research Committee for the past five years, and served as a member of the SSR Program Committee, where he organized the Ovarian Workshop in 2016 and 2018. He is the Associate Editor for Molecular Human Reproduction, Reproductive Sciences, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, and Reproductive Biomedicine Online, and is currently co-editor of Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology. As an educator, Dr Seli delivered more than 150 invited lectures nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Excellence in Teaching Award based on evaluations of his lectures by Yale Medical Students. Dr Seli edited four books (Non-invasive Management of Gynecologic Disorders, Infertility, Fertility Preservation, and Human Gametes and Pre-implantation Embryos: Assessment and Diagnosis) and is currently co-authoring the 9th edition of the Speroff's Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility. Juan A. Garcia VelascoJuan A. Garcia VelascoProfessor Juan A. Garcia Velasco is Director of IVI RMA-Madrid, Spain. He gained his degree in medicine at Complutense University, Spain, in 1990, before going on to train as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology at La Paz Hospital, Spain, between 1992 and 1995. Professor Garcia Velasco gained his PhD in medicine and surgery at Autónoma University, Spain, in 1995. He then became a sub-specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Yale University, USA, in 1998. Professor Garcia Velasco has published 122 scientific articles in impact journals along with 22 chapters and four books. He is the Principal Investigator of projects funded by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. He is the Co-Editor of Reproductive Biomedicine Online (RBMO) and a member of the Editorial Committee of Fertility & Sterility (ASRM), Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), Spanish Society of Obstetrics (SEGO) and Gynecology and Spanish Society of Fertility (SEF).

2021 EDS Education Award call for nominations

2021 EDS Education Award call for nominations

Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?

Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?

Spotlight: Rising Stars in Cytology

Spotlight: Rising Stars in Cytology

Call for nominations for POLY awards

The American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY) is soliciting nominations for the following awards. The Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Award recognizes outstanding achievements ...

Celebrating Professor Barry M. Trost's 80th Birthday

Celebrating Professor Barry M. Trost's 80^th Birthday

Call for Education Awards Nominations

Call for Education Awards Nominations

Students’ evaluation of teaching in the project-based learning programme: An instrument and a development process

Students' evaluation of teaching (SET) is widely adopted in most universities. Besides allowing teachers to improve their teaching, SET offers an important input for university administrators' consideration in faculty promotion, contract renewal, salary increase and teaching award. While the practice of using SET instrument is well established, it remains ambiguous in the SET literature whether a dedicated SET instrument is used for alternative teaching pedagogy. Our paper argues that SET instrument may need to be re-designed to reflect the idiosyncrasy of another teaching pedagogy. Accordingly, this paper presents the development process of a SET instrument used to measure an alternative teaching pedagogy in project-based learning. By drawing upon a case study of a university in Singapore, we demonstrate the development of a SET instrument and highlight the considerations surfaced during the development process. Our findings showed that active involvement of students and faculty in the development process proved to be important for the successful development and implementation of SET instrument. The paper concludes with implications for research and education, and limitation of this study.

ASA Seeks Nominations for Excellence in Education Award

ASA Seeks Nominations for Excellence in Education Award

IEEE Call for Educational Awards Nominations

IEEE Call for Educational Awards Nominations

2021 EDS Education Award call for nominations

2021 EDS Education Award call for nominations

Education Awards Nominations

Education Awards Nominations

Lewis Wolpert (1929-2021).

Lewis Wolpert was a brilliant and inspiring scientist who made hugely significant contributions which underpin and influence our understanding of developmental biology today. He spent his career interested in how the fertilised egg can give rise to the whole embryo (and ultimately the adult) with one head, two arms, two legs, all its organs and importantly how cells become different from each other and how they 'know' what to become. His ideas revolutionised the way developmental biology was perceived and also reinvigorated, in particular, the key question of how pattern formation in embryonic development is achieved. He published over 200 scientific articles and received many accolades over his career for his work and services to science in the UK. These included a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) from the Queen, being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was also a recipient of the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology and was awarded The Royal Society's top honour, the Royal Medal in 2018. Lewis was also a gifted teacher and communicator, including being the author of a textbook on developmental biology used around the world to train the next generation of developmental biologists. This contribution was recognised in 2003, by the award of the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Award from the Society of Developmental Biology in the USA. Lewis always enjoyed giving talks and lectures, having an infectious and persuasive enthusiasm coupled with a sharp sense of humour. He also published articles in popular science journals (aimed at the public) such as New Scientist, Scientific American and The Scientist. Lewis also wrote several popular science books. He was a passionate advocate for the public understanding of science and was the Chair of The Royal Society/Royal Institution/British Association for the Advancement of Science Committee for Public Understanding of Science (1994-1998). For this contribution he was awarded The Royal Society Michael Faraday Medal for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences". He presented the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1986 entitled 'Frankenstein's Quest: development of life'. These lectures, six in total, are presented by leading scientists and aimed at the general public and broadcast on national television. On a personal level, Lewis influenced all who came into contact with him, shaped his students and postdocs careers and instilled in them, and the community as whole, a life-long love of developmental biology.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Call for Nominations: ASA Excellence in Education Award

Call for Nominations: ASA Excellence in Education Award

In Memoriam: David P. Schuyler

In Memoriam: David P. Schuyler

Проблемы эффективности человеческого капитала, формируемого в системе образования России

The paper hypothesizes that the quality of education in the country is decreasing, the existing education management system is not effective, and contributes to a decrease in the quality of education. To assess the hypotheses, the profitability of human capital formed in education systems according to Rosstat data on the amount of remuneration of workers with different levels of education was considered. It was found that in 2009-2013, an increase in the level of education ensured an increase in the level of remuneration - receiving a bonus for the years of study, but during this period the premium over the years of study steadily decreased. In 2015-2019, the premium for obtaining all types of education, except for higher education, was completely lost. The higher education award has dropped significantly. These phenomena indicate a drop in the quality of education. They are due to the low level of funding for education and the archaic command and control system of education management, based on the administrative and control style of management, the instruments of which are orders, binding standards and control.

Tosiyasu L. Kunii, 1938–2020

Prof. Tosiyasu L. Kunii (1938–2020) passed away on November 3, 2020. He was a longstanding member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications , serving for over 21 years from 1982 into 2002 and over the span of six different Editors-in-Chief. His own work was published 18 times over the years in the pages of IEEE CG&A , and his contributions to multiple research areas within computer graphics and computing are highly regarded. Among his many accomplishments, he was an IEEE Life Fellow and recipient of the prestigious IEEE Booth Education Award. With more than 50 published books and 500 refereed articles across the major publications and conferences of our field, and with colleagues and former students distributed around the world, his work and legacy will live on.

IEEE Education Awards Nominations

IEEE Education Awards Nominations

Factors Impacting Elementary General Music Teachers’ Career Decisions: Systemic Issues of Student Race, Teacher Support, and Family

The purpose of this study was to examine factors that may influence the projected career plans of elementary general music teachers. Survey participants ( N = 972) completed a questionnaire designed to elicit responses about multiple factors and projected career plans in 1 year and in 5 years. The vast majority of participants planned to remain in their position the following year, yet a little under half of them planned on remaining in their positions in 5 years. The variables associated with teacher migration or attrition in 5 years were issues of teacher support (i.e., participation in a mentoring program and recognition in the form of teaching awards), student race, and family responsibilities (i.e., number of children at home). Movers were also more likely to have received a teaching award than those who intended to stay in their current positions or those who planned to leave the profession. Implications for the profession as well as for practice and future research are discussed.