Global health curriculum initiatives encourage undergraduates to embrace – and solve – real-world problems.

Along unpredictable paths to discovery, Peter Walter has maintained a sure-footed approach – to the science as well as to the people he mentors.

This past May, HHMI announced that 26 talented scientists would be given an initial five years of freedom to pursue the scientific questions that keep them up at night.

Almost every year for the past decade, Dan Bolnick has made the 2,400-mile trek from his home in Austin, Texas, to a campsite on Vancouver Island to study a thumb-sized fish that makes its home in the island’s remote lakes and streams.

Educators working to inspire the next generation of scientists are learning that engaging students in research – not one by one, but by the hundreds or thousands on a single project – can drive discovery forward, propelling research in ways that would be impossible without a massive group effort.