RISE Center research on helping people reconcile religion and evolution was featured in a video produced by the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.
The National Center for Science Education wrote about the RISE Center's work exploring the relationship between evolution and student religious beliefs.
In recognition of research accomplishments and plans for graduate work, three Arizona State University School of Life Sciences students have been named 2022 Graduate Research Fellows by the National Science Foundation along with existing winners Carly Busch and Logan Gin.
Mohammed, T. F., Gin, L. E., Wiesenthal, N. J., & Cooper, K. M. (2022). The experiences of undergraduates with depression in online science learning environments. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 21(2), ar18.
Edwards, B. A., Roberts, J. A., Bowen, C., Brownell, S. E., & Barnes, M. E. (2022). An exploration of how gender, political affiliation, or religious identity is associated with comfort and perceptions of controversial topics in bioethics. Advances in Physiology Education.
Abraham, A. E., Busch, C. A., Brownell, S. E., & Cooper, K. M. (2022). Instructor perceptions of student incivility in the online undergraduate science classroom. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, e00271-21.
Gin, L. E., Pais, D. C., Parrish, K. D., Brownell, S. E., & Cooper, K. M. (2022). New online accommodations are not enough: the mismatch between student needs and supports given for students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, e00280-21.
RISE Center's core faculty member and Assistant Director of Evaluation recently was featured in ASU Online's Newsroom article that touches on ASU faculty creating welcoming spaces for women in STEM.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has elected RISE Director, Sara Brownell, as a 2021 Fellow for the section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering.
The RISE Center welcomes visiting scholar Jamie Jensen for the month of February. Jamie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Brigham Young University. She specializes in the development and assessment of undergraduate biology curricula that employ evidenced-based pedagogical strategies to increase student scientific reasoning skills and deep conceptual understanding.