Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Query: Inform me on the nature of modern STEM disciplines (via Quora.com)

Truman State Univeristy has the unique honor to be one of a handful of colleges or Universities to have a PRISM grant from the National Science Foundation. We earned the honor of this grant on the basis of our ability to marshal faculty support for the idea that STEM education in the twenty-first century is different from the STEM education of the twentieth century. At Truman, we've had great success in building a curriculum supporting the New Biology, and our NSF PRISM grant is helping us extend this to other STEM disciplines. Specifically, it's helping us reach freshmen in the following way.

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