Indira Raman Published a Feature Article in eLife
Indira Raman, the Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology in the Department of Neurobiology, provided her insight into the process of training graduate students to be well equipped to conduct research in the future. In her essay published in eLife, Living Science: Teaching for the future, Professor Raman conveys the value of teaching students to learn through a course on historical literature, where they discuss landmark papers or ‘Great Experiments.’ Her approach to discussing the historical literature begins with mentally entering the historical era of the research, then examining the language of the text, and of course delving into the science of the paper. With this approach, students begin seeing published papers “as representing a moment in a history that climaxes with them.”
13 January 2015
