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Dear colleagues, We have an opening for a funded doctoral research student position at WMU beginning this fall. Please see the announcement below and forward to anyone who might be interested. Questions or replies should be sent directly to Charles Henderson ([log in to unmask]). Cheers, Heather From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Please distribute this opportunity to anyone who might be interested. We have an opening for a graduate student research assistant to join our top-ranked program in Science Education at Western Michigan University ( <http://www.wmich.edu/science> http://www.wmich.edu/science). Applicants with a bachelors degree may apply to the concurrent-enrollment program that allows them to earn a M.A. degree in a science discipline from a WMU science department and a Ph.D. in Science Education from the Mallinson Institute for Science Education. Applicants who already have a masters degree can apply directly to the Ph.D. program. Graduate Research Assistant Needed to Study Institution-Wide Transformation of Introductory Science Labs WMU researcher Charles Henderson has been contracted to study the implementation and impact of a major science reform effort at Iowa State University. With support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Iowa State is planning to change their introductory science labs to allow students to pose meaningful questions (as opposed to traditional ‘cookbook’ style labs). Environmental issues will be a major overarching theme of the project. See <http://www.hhmi.org/news/iastate20100520.html> http://www.hhmi.org/news/iastate20100520.html for more details about the larger program. A graduate student research assistant is needed to work on this project. The position will start in September 2010 and last for four years. The goal of the project is to study how and to what extent these changes become institutionalized at Iowa State as well as barriers and affordances to such institutionalization. Project activities will include conducting interviews and surveys with key stakeholders, targeted observations, as well as analysis of project documents. If you are interested in finding out more about this project, please contact Dr. Charles Henderson at <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] Successful applicants must meet the enrollment criteria for the graduate program in Science Education at the Western Michigan University Mallinson Institute for Science Education (more details at <http://www.wmich.edu/science> http://www.wmich.edu/science). -------- Charles Henderson Associate Professor, Physics and Science Education Western Michigan University <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] <http://homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders/> http://homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders/ Physics Education Research Editor, American Journal of Physics Fulbright Scholar, Finnish Institute for Educational Research University of Jyväskylä 014 260 3255 Opinkivi 212 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]