Halmos Assistant Professor Participates in STEM Education Virtual Workshop

Santanu De, M.Sc., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, was selected among top 20 applicants to participate in a competitive STEM Education Professional Skills Virtual Workshop organized by the Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM Resource Hub of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The workshop was titled “Designing competitive research questions for grant proposals.”  Representing NSU in the team of faculty members from multiple institutions across the U.S., De contributed to the following efforts:

1. Using a gap analysis to identify the focus for future research grant proposals,
2. Using a SWOT (strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats) analysis to identify the best route for answering research questions for future grant proposals,
3. Designing specific and answerable research questions,
4. Identifying potential sources of baseline data, and
5. Building a research plan around the proposed research questions

De’s research interests include STEM education, pedagogy, reproductive physiology, developmental biology, cell biology, and protein biology. He is a member of  the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS), an editorial board member of several journals including The American Journal of BioScience, and faculty adviser of  NSU’s Med-ED student medical organization.