Bethel, Bartel lauded for science education
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NORTH NEWTON, Kan.—For the third time, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has recognized Bethel College for the high number of its science majors who go on to earn M.D. degrees and/or Ph.D. degrees in the sciences. Bethel also was recognized in 1996 and 2003.
HHMI, a major supporter of biomedical science teaching and research worldwide, has been recognizing U.S. colleges and universities in this way through its program Initiatives for Colleges every four years, beginning in 1996. No other four-year college or master’s degree-granting university in Kansas has received the honor.
To identify institutions for recognition, HHMI assesses the most recent 10-year period for which data are available on both the percentage and the absolute number of graduates from U.S. institutions who have entered medical school or have earned doctorates in biology, chemistry, physics or mathematics.
In another HHMI program recognizing biological and biomedical scientists for their creativity and productivity, Bonnie Bartel, a 1983 Bethel graduate, was selected an “HHMI professor.” The goal of this program is to “recognize and support innovative approaches to teaching, infusing undergraduate science with the excitement and rigor of scientific research as a model for fundamental reform of the way undergraduate science is taught at research universities.”
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