Benabentos, Rocio

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Benabentos, Rocio

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Faculty Administrator, STEM Transformation Institute , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

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selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2022
  
  Institutionalizing evidence-based STEM reform through faculty professional development and support structures. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STEM EDUCATION. 9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s40594-022-00353-z Web of Science: 000794875100001
- 2022
  
  The cognitive and affective roles of learning assistants in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics college classrooms: An exploration of classroom experiences and students' metacognitive awareness and disciplinary identity
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/sce.21703 Web of Science: 000748613600001
- 2021
  
  Distinct factors predict use of active learning techniques by pre-tenure and tenured STEM faculty
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2021.1927461
- 2021
  
  Measuring the implementation of student-centered teaching strategies in lower- and upper-division STEM courses
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2020.1768005
- 2019
  
  Closing the Achievement Gap in a Large Introductory Course by Balancing Reduced In-Person Contact with Increased Course Structure. CBE-LIFE SCIENCES EDUCATION. 18.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.18-08-0153 Web of Science: 000465386400013
- 2014
  
  Addressing health disparities in the undergraduate curriculum: An approach to develop a knowledgeable biomedical workforce
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1187/cbe.14-06-0101
- 2011
  
  Self-recognition in social amoebae is mediated by allelic pairs of tiger genes. SCIENCE. 333:467-470.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1126/science.1203903
- 2009
  
  Polymorphic Members of the lag Gene Family Mediate Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 19:567-572.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.037

co-principal investigator on

Grant
- HSI-CCC: UNIDOS HSI Program Network Resource Center for Community Coordination awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2029
- IMPACT STEM Transfer: Inclusive And Meaningful Partnerships for Cultivating Transformatio awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2022 - 2028
- HSI Institutional Transformation Project Voces (Voices for Organizing Change in Educational Systems) awarded by National Science Foundation 2022 - 2027
- Authentic Bioinformatics in the Classroom (ABC) Project awarded by General Medical Sciences 2022 - 2027
- Working Across Boundaries through promoting collaboration and interdisciplinarity in future STEM education scholars awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2026
- HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Promoting inclusive teaching through the scholarship of teaching and learning: a faculty learning community model awarded by National Science Foundation 2023 - 2026
- HHMI IE3 Learning Community awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2021 - 2023
- HHMI DC Learning Community awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2021 - 2023
- RAISE: C-Accel Pilot - Track B1 (AI and Future Jobs): Preparing the Future Workforce of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction for Robotic Automation Processes awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2021
- Community for Faculty Development awarded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2015 - 2018

investigator on

Engaging and Mentoring through Biomedical Research And Career Exploration (EMBRACE) awarded by Allergy and Infectious Diseases 2023 - 2028
Investigating Career & Research Experience Access Through Evidence (iCREATE) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027

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