SUNY Oneonta to Benefit from National Science Foundation Grant

A SUNY Oneonta project to develop new ways of teaching college physiology has received funding from the National Science Foundation. The NSF’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM Program awarded a $194,000 grant to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York on behalf of SUNY Oneonta in support of “Revolution In Physiology Education: RIPE for Change.”

Under the direction of SUNY Oneonta Associate Professor of Biology Dr. Keith Schillo, the project was one of about 125 selected from 1,050 proposals to receive funding.

The goal of the project is to change the way physiology is taught—not only at SUNY Oneonta, but  at other institutions with which the results of the project will be shared. The NSF grant will be used to purchase state-of-the-art instrumentation for human and animal physiology experiments that will be used to create instructional resources for a problem-based approach to teaching physiology.  A new conceptual framework for teaching physiology, supported by a set of specific instructional tools, will be developed and shared with other colleges and universities.