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Dr. Barbara Alving, Director of the NCRR at the NIH, provides an overview of SEPA projects across the country and highlights the Frontiers program.

2009 Research Teachers celebrate and conclude fellowship at EB 2010.

Hear about current physiology research topics on Life Lines, a Podcast of the APS


Celebrate PhUn Week! Engage your students in some exercise and health-related activities to learn about physiology.

Welcome to Frontiers in Physiology

Frontiers in Physiology is a program of the American Physiological Society (APS), and is sponsored by APS, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA Grant #RR025127), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK Grant #DK 39306) at the National Institutes of Health. The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Wiley Publishers also generously donate materials for teachers in the program each year.

Frontiers in Physiology has four main goals and objectives:

Develop, evaluate, refine, and disseminate a model and materials for integrating inquiry, equity, and technology into the middle/high school science classroom and into professional development programs;
Build ongoing working relationships between research scientist and middle/high school teachers through research and in-service experiences and online communications;
Promote the adoption of national standards for K-12 content and pedagogy -- especially inquiry, equity, and technology use -- by middle and high school science teachers through ongoing in-service activities developed collaboratively by teachers and researchers; and
Increase teachers' skills in developing, assessing, and utilizing web-based curricular materials and resources, especially in integrating online resources into inquiry-based teaching.

Fulfillment of these goals is accomplished through three program components:

the Research Teacher Fellowship,
Local Outreach Teams, and
the Leadership Fellowship.

News and Events

Have some fun during PhUn Week in November! Host an APS member physiologist in your classroom.
Highlights from PhUn Week 2009

In each component, teachers and physiologists work collaboratively to improve science education at middle and high school levels.

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The Frontiers in Physiology programs are developed and sponsored by the American Physiological Society with additional funding from the National Center for Research Resources (Science Education Partnership Award #RR15251) at the National Institutes of Health.