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Two Stanford research teams are making steady progress toward creating a visual prosthesis that works as well as a real human eye.
One of their promising new devices, a bionic vision system based on photovoltaic implants, is awaiting approval for human clinical trials in Europe.
University Research | Stanford UniversityUniversity of Michigan researchers have developed a new chip that has the potential to revolutionize cancer treatment by enabling doctors to plan customized treatments, monitor genetic changes, and flag the presence of aggressive cells that are likely to spread cancer.
University Research | University of MichiganParticipation in the Initiative by AAU member institutions has been high. This is demonstrated by the fact that all 62 AAU institutions have designated a STEM Campus Point of Contact to serve as a liaison between AAU and his or her campus for the Initiative.
Seed-funding was awarded to eight AAU member project sites (Brown University; Michigan State University; The University of Arizona; University of California, Davis; University of Colorado Boulder; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania; and Washington University in…
AAU is assisting member universities in tracking the progress of their reform efforts in addition to evaluating the overall impact of the STEM Initiative.
AAU universities are successfully implementing strategies to achieve long-lasting improvements in undergraduate STEM teaching and learning.
AAU has developed resources to help research universities take a systems perspective to improving undergraduate STEM education.
AAU leadership has committed to extend the initial five-year undergraduate STEM effort indefinitely by integrating continued support for undergraduate STEM education reform and improvement into its ongoing staffing structure and portfolio of work.
Section 1 provides information about the approach and process undertaken by AAU to develop, launch, and implement an initiative in collaboration with our member universities to improve the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and…
This section presents summaries and analyses of the strategies and approaches that the AAU STEM project sites are implementing to improve undergraduate STEM education at their institutions.