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The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is pleased to announce that Shyla Cooks and Karl Palmquist have been selected as the 2021 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award (EPPLA) recipients. The EPPLA recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who are demonstrating an interest and aptitude for working at the intersection of science and policy.
Shyla Cooks is a master s student in bioscience and health policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. After serving in the United States Navy for four years, she worked as a 7th and 8th grade science teacher for two years under the Teach for America program, which is dedicated to addressing educational inequities in low-income areas. She continues to teach science at the School of Science and Technology a charter school in Houston, Texas while enrolled in full-time coursework. Cooks is active in her professional community as a member of the Rice Science Policy Network, the Doerr Institute for New Leade
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Institute blasts leadership development in higher education
New book takes academia to task, provides evidence-based blueprint for training students to become future leaders
HOUSTON – (Jan. 19, 2020) – Colleges and universities claim to develop leaders, but according to Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders, the only evidence is found in recruiting materials and ad campaigns.
The institute has published what it calls an intervention: “Leadership Reckoning,” a book that provides an evidence-based blueprint for effective, measurable leader development. It is being sent to top colleges and universities around the country to encourage them to take leadership development seriously, according to authors Tom Kolditz, director of the Doerr Institute, Ryan Brown, the institute’s managing director for measurement, and award-winning author Libby Gill.