Jones Award Research Articles

Build-A-Genome and the “awesome power of undergraduates”

Abstract The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes individuals or groups who have had significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level, from K-12 through graduate school and beyond. The 2024 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient Jef Boeke considers himself a geneticist turned engineer. He transformed his landmark synthetic yeast genome project into a research-heavy teaching course, revolutionizing molecular biology and genetics education. The Build-A-Genome course was developed to teach students basic practical molecular genetics while also providing the raw materials for a global genome synthesis project, Yeast 2.0. The course evolved over two decades to reflect the changing needs and opportunities for the project and the development of new technologies. In addition to educating a generation of college and high school students in a new way, it also developed a cadre of educators who developed similar courses and projects at a wide variety of research and educational institutions.

Cultural and Linguistic Misrepresentations in Disney's The Princess and the Frog

Cultural and Linguistic Misrepresentations in Disney's <i>The Princess and the Frog</i>

Winner of the William M. Jones Award at the 2021 Popular Culture Association Conference

An array of 22 dancers stride cheerfully in unison across the proscenium stage toward a jam-packed audience, often as richly diverse as the dancers themselves. Audience members take to their feet, singing, clapping, dancing in the aisle, an experience--that by choreographer's intention--recalls the celebratory abandon of a Black church revival. The magnetism of Ailey's Revelations has captivated audiences worldwide for over six decades. Through extensive domestic and international touring by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Revelations has appeared on six continents since its premiere. Revelations (1960) is the most performed and most viewed choreographic work of the twentieth century. During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, a full-length recording of Revelations streamed on YouTube for over a year, providing hundreds of thousands of viewers free access to the piece from their computer screens.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting.

The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual who has had a significant impact on genetics education at any education level. Seth R. Bordenstein, Ph.D., Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University and Founding Director of the Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, is the 2020 recipient in recognition of his cofounding, developing, and expanding Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project.

The Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics.

The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual or group that has had significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level, from K-12 through graduate school and beyond. Bruce Weir (University of Washington) is the 2019 recipient in recognition of his work training thousands of researchers in the rigorous use of statistical analysis methods for genetic and genomic data. His contributions fall into three categories: the acclaimed Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, which has been held continuously for 23 years and has trained > 10,000 researchers worldwide; the popular graduate-level textbook Genetic Data Analysis; and the training of a growing number of forensic geneticists during the rise of DNA evidence in courts around the world.

BioEYES: 2018 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education.

The Genetics Society of America's Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education honors individuals who have made a significant and sustained impact on genetics education. The 2018 recipients are geneticist Steven Farber of the Carnegie Institution for Science and education expert Jamie Shuda of the University of Pennsylvania. Farber and Shuda were awarded the prize in recognition of their outreach program BioEYES, which provides students in grades 2-12 with hands-on biology experience using live zebrafish. The flagship program brings fish-and the tools to study them-into the classroom for an entire week, during which time students observe much of the fish's life cycle, from mating to the development of larvae.

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions

Philip H. Jones Award 2017

Philip H. Jones Award 2017

Inside the Literature: An Interview with Sally G. Hoskins, 2017 Recipient of the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education.

The Genetics Society of America's Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes significant and sustained impact on genetics education. The 2017 recipient is Sally G. Hoskins, in recognition of her role in developing and promoting the transformative science education method CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment). This innovative approach uses primary literature to engage students, allowing them to experience for themselves the creativity and challenge of study design, analysis, interpretation, collaboration, and debate. Comprehensive evaluation of CREATE has consistently found that students improve in difficult-to-teach skills like critical thinking and experimental design, while showing improved attitudes and beliefs about science.This is an abridged version of the interview. The full interview is available on the Genes to Genomes blog, at genestogenomes.org/hoskins/.

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

Learning and Doing: An Interview with Bill Wood

THE Genetics Society of America's Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes significant and sustained impact on genetics education. As well as having made major contributions to biochemistry and developmental genetics, the 2016 awardee William B. Wood has been a pioneer in the reform of science teaching. Wood's leadership has been crucial in several national initiatives and programs, including the development of the influential National Academies Summer institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology. He has also catalyzed change in education through his service as Editor-in-Chief of CBE-Life Sciences Education, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology, in editorial partnership with the GSA.

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

PH Jones award winners (for the next issue of WQRJC)

PH Jones award winners (for the next issue of WQRJC)

Science Translator: An Interview with Louisa Stark.

The Genetics Society of America’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes significant and sustained impact on genetics education. The 2015 awardee, Louisa Stark, has made a major impact on global access to genetics education through her work as director of the University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center. The Center’s Learn.Genetics and Teach.Genetics websites are the most widely used online genetic education resources in the world. In 2014, they were visited by 18 million students, educators, scientists, and members of the public. With over 60 million page views annually, Learn.Genetics is among the most used sites on the Web.

Norman L Jones Award

Norman L Jones Award

It's not about you: a simple proposition for improving biology education.

THE Genetics Society of America’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes significant and sustained impact on genetics education. Consistent with her philosophy of linking research and education, the 2014 Awardee Robin Wright includes undergraduate students in all of her research. She seeks to teach how to think like and to actually be a biologist, working in teams and looking at real-world problems. She emphasizes a learner-centered model of classroom work that promotes and enhances lifelong skills, and has transformed biology education at the University of Minnesota through several efforts including developing the interactive, stimulating Foundations of Biology course sequence, encouraging active learning and open-ended research; supporting the construction of Active Learning Classrooms; and establishing Student Learning Outcomes, standards that measure biology education. She serves as founding editor-in-chief of CourseSource, focusing national effort to collect learner-centered, outcomes-based teaching resources in undergraduate biology.

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award

Philip H. Jones Award